Mommy
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Mommy

"A chronicle of a Soviet family folk-band founded by a mother of six."

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...

Overview

Release Date
Mar 31, 1999
Original Title
Мама
Runtime
100 minutes
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Language
ru
Production Companies
Etalon-Film, Profit, Channel One
Production Countries
Russia