خلاصه داستان : فیلم بر اساس رمانی نوشته "ماکسیم گورکی" ساخته شده و در مورد زنی است که بر سر دو راهی وفاداری به همسر و پسرش در سالهای انقلاب گیر کرده و...

The social ferment in late 19th century Russia which led to the 1917 Russian Revolution is movingly portrayed in this lengthy historical drama, which is very faithful to the 1907 novel The Mother by the celebrated Marxist writer Maxim Gorky (1868-1936). In the story, "the mother" (Inna Tchourikova) has no other recourse than to watch her decent, kindly husband turn into an animalistic, drunken brute as a result of working in the inhuman conditions of a steel mill in the town of Sormovo. When he begins to express his suppressed rage by beating her, she is defended by her teenaged son Pavel (depicted Viktor Rakov as an adult, Sacha Chichonok as a boy). After his father's death, Pavel is forced to go to work in the same factory. However, Pavel and his friends begin investigating Marxism and socialist thought, and work to organize their fellow workers.

خلاصه داستان : پس از یافتن یک تفنگ قدیمی، پسر جوانی به جنبش مقاومت شوروی علیه نیروهای بی رحم آلمانی می پیوندد و وحشت های جنگ جهانی دوم را تجربه می کند.

The invasion of a village in Byelorussia by German forces sends young Florya into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters, against his family's wishes. There he meets a girl, Glasha, who accompanies him back to his village. On returning home, Florya finds his family and fellow peasants massacred. His continued survival amidst the brutal debris of war becomes increasingly nightmarish, a battle between despair and hope.