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Mother and Son

1997 · 79 min

A hushed, dreamlike meditation on love and mortality, unfolding in long, tender, nearly wordless images that demand patience and reward it with quiet devastation.

Directed by
Aleksandr Sokurov
Genres
Drama
Starring
Aleksei Ananishnov, Gudrun Geyer
Overview
A man goes for a walk through the countryside with his dying mother.

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Directed by
Aleksandr Sokurov
Genres
Drama
Starring
Aleksei Ananishnov, Gudrun Geyer
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • bleakstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • death
  • parenthood
  • love
  • isolation
  • grief
Places
  • countryside
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action0
Horror1
Humour0
Realism6
Romance1
Tension2
Darkness5
Complexity7
Emotional weight9

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Aleksandr Sokurov
Written by
Yuriy Arabov
Starring
Aleksei Ananishnov, Gudrun Geyer
Cinematography
Alexey Fedorov
Runtime
79 min
Country
Germany, Russia
Languages
Russian

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