Mommy
Мама
Release: 1999-03-31
·Runtime: 100m
·★ 5.5
Drama
After Polina, a mother of six, loses her husband, who went to jail for stealing charcoal and was killed when he tried to escape, she stays behind without any support. To be able to survive, Polina and her family start a folk group. But soon she understands that her children deserve a better fate, and she takes the desperate decision to steal a plane and go abroad... Fifteen years later, Polina is released from prison and finds out that fate has scattered her children all over the country: one is in the army, another is a miner in the Donbass, and the oldest, Lyonchik, who used to be in a mental institution, now pretends to be insane. Polina gathers all of her sons to free their older brother from the psychiatric hospital...
Production Countries
Russia
Production Companies
Etalon-Film
Profit
Channel One
Cast
Lyudmila Karaush
as prodavets
Oleg Menshikov
as Lyonchik Yuryev
Maksim Sukhanov
as Hospital chief
Nikolay Chindyaykin
as Doctor
Aleksei Shevchenkov
Rafik Sabirov
Zhanna Epple
Ervand Arzumanyan
Viktor Uralsky
Nonna Mordyukova
as Polina Yuryeva
Mikhail Krylov
Pavel Lebeshev
Valeriy Doronin
Natalya Pozdnyakova
Vladimir Ivanov
Bolot Beyshenaliev
Tatyana Samoylova
Evgeny Mironov
as Pavel Yuryev
Andrei Panin
as Yuryev-father
Elena Panova
as Polina in his youth
Anatoliy Belyy
Gleb Podgorodinsky
Roman Madyanov
Igor Zolotovitsky
Vladimir Mashkov
as Nikolai Yuryev
Aleksei Kravchenko
as Vasili Yuryev
Anna Shtukaturova
Maria Skosyreva
Crew
Grigoriy Rudakov
Director of Photography
Yury Saulsky
Music
Elizbar Karavayev
Additional Director of Photography
Evgeny Korzhenkov
Additional Director of Photography
Pavel Kaplevich
Costume Design
Igor Tolstunov
Producer
Sergei Kozlov
Director of Photography
Eduard Artemyev
Original Music Composer
Arif Aliev
Writer
Vladimir Aronin
Production Design
Oleg Martynov
Additional Director of Photography
Denis Evstigneev
Director, Producer
Konstantin Ernst
Producer
Pavel Lebeshev
Director of Photography