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Mommy

A chronicle of a Soviet family folk-band founded by a mother of six.
Mar 31, 1999 · 1h 40m
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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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CAST

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
Directed by Denis Evstigneev

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Status
Released
Original language
RU
Budget
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Production
Etalon-Film, Profit, Channel One
Country
RU
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