Mommy

The story

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...

Cast & crew

Nonna MordyukovaPolina Yuryeva

Oleg MenshikovLyonchik Yuryev

Vladimir MashkovNikolai Yuryev

Evgeny MironovPavel Yuryev

Aleksei KravchenkoVasili Yuryev

Andrei PaninYuryev-father

Maksim SukhanovHospital chief

Nikolay ChindyaykinDoctor

Elena PanovaPolina in his youth

Mikhail KrylovCast

Pavel LebeshevCast

Valeriy DoroninCast