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Mother (1999 Russian film)

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'Mother' is a 1999 Russian feature film based on the capture of an Ovechkin family in 1988.[http://kinoart.ru/archive/1999/07/n7-article8 ]

Plot



This story began a long time ago. Having lost her husband, who was imprisoned for stealing coal and was killed during the escape, Polina, the mother of six children, was left without any support.

To make ends meet, Polina founded a family folk music ensemble. Soon, however, she realizes that her children were worthy of a better fate, and she makes a desperate decision to escape the Soviet Union by hijacking the commercial airliner the family was traveling aboard.

Fifteen years later, Polina is released from prison to learn that fate has scattered her children all over the country: one is illegally fighting in a bar, another is chopping coal in the Donbas. Her oldest, Leonid, is still in a psychiatric hospital, having pretended to be mentally ill for 15 years to avoid prosecution for the hijacking.

In the final scenes, Polian again gathers her sons to free their elder brother from the hospital.

Cast



* Nonna Mordyukova as Polina

** Yelena Panova as young Polina

* Oleg Menshikov as Leonid

* Vladimir Mashkov as Nikolay

* Yevgeny Mironov as Pavel

* Aleksei Kravchenko as Vasily

*Mikhail Krylov as Yuri

* Maksim Sukhanov as special hospital's head

* Nikolai Chindyajkin as head physician

* Andrei Panin as father

* Pavel Lebeshev as icebreaker's captain

* Roman Madyanov as sergeant

* Bolot Beyshenaliyev as old northerner

* Natalia Soldatova as Stewardess

Awards and nominations



;Winner

* Honfleur Festival of Russian Cinema Audience Award (Denis Yevstigneyev)

* Kinotavr Best Music (Eduard Artemyev)

;Nominee

* Nika Award Best Music (Eduard Artemyev)

* Russian Guild of Film Critics Best Actress (Nonna Mordyukova)

* Kinotavr Full-Length Film

* Tokyo International Film Festival Tokyo Grand Prix

References




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