Gor'kii's response to Pudovkin's film The Mother
Alexandra Smith
Alexandra.Smith at ED.AC.UK
Mon May 7 11:22:18 UTC 2012
Dear Irene,
According to Amy Sargeant's book, Gorky disapproved of Pudovkin's
version of his novel and accused Vsevolod Pudovkin and Natan Zarkhi of
"political tendentiousness at the expense of maternal motivation".
See: Sargeant, Amy. Vsevolod Pudovkin: Classic Films of the Soviet
Avant-Garde, London, New York: I.B. Tauris, 2000, p.70.
The book offers an excellent analysis of Razumny's adaptation (1919)
and of Pudovkin's version (1926). She also refers to A. Karaganov's
book Vsevolod Pudovkin (Moscow, 1973) in which Gorky's responses to
the film have been discussed.
With best wishes,
Sasha Smith
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