Mama

"NTV Profit", "Russian Project Studios". 1999
Directed by Denis Evstigneyev
Screenplay by Arif Aliyev
Directors of photography: Sergey Kozlov, Pavel Lebeshev
Music by Edward Artemiyev

Cast:
Lyonchik - Oleg Menshikov
Mama - Nonna Mordyukova
Nikolay - Vladimir Mashkov
Pavel - Evgeny Mironov
Vasily - Alexey Kravchenko
Yuri - Mikhail Krylov

This story began long ago. Having lost her husband, who was imprisoned because of coal stealing and killed at the escape, Polina, the mother of five children, was left without any support. To make both ends meet, Polina founded a family folk band. But soon mama understood that her children deserved better life and took desperate decision to high-jack a plain.
Fifteen years later Polina will leave the prison...

• Mawkish 'Mama' Saved by Magnificent Cast
  Julia Solovyova, The Moscow Times, April 6, 1999
  
• Mama Got Game
  Krazy Kavin, "The Exile", No. 07/62, April 8 - 21, 1999

• Film Company NTV-Profit. "Mama"