The Enduring Beauty of “Persepolis”
This powerful story shines with poetic animation, an exploration of deeper truths, and the protagonist's complex search for identity.
Mommy (1999)
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...
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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...
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Genre:Drama
Written By:Arif Aliev
In Theaters:4/4/1999
Box Office:
Runtime:100 minutes
Studio:Etalon-Film, Profit, Channel One
Cast
Denis Evstigneev
Director
Nonna Mordyukova
Polina Yuryeva
Oleg Menshikov
Lyonchik Yuryev
Vladimir Mashkov
Nikolai Yuryev
Evgeny Mironov
Pavel Yuryev
Aleksei Kravchenko
Vasili Yuryev
Andrei Panin
Yuryev-father
Maksim Sukhanov
Hospital chief
Nikolay Chindyaykin
Doctor
Elena Panova
Polina in his youth
Mikhail Krylov
Pavel Lebeshev
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