Vsevolod Pudovkin

Soviet film director, screenwriter and film theorist, prominent in 1920s Soviet cinema and montage-era filmmaking; director of Mat' (Mother) and other notable silent films.

Born 1893, died 1953. Key figure of Soviet silent cinema and film theory; often associated with the montage generation alongside Sergei Eisenstein.

The available review focuses on Pudovkin's Mat' (Mother), portraying the 1905-era worker Vlasov, his alcoholic decline, the son's revolutionary involvement and the mother's sacrifice. The writing is vivid and impassioned, emphasizing personal loss set against revolutionary struggle. Readers get a strong sense of political and familial tragedy as central themes.

For:Students and fans of film history, readers interested in Soviet silent cinema and political/working-class dramas