As with Eisenstein’s Potemkin, V.I. Pudovkin’s Mother, from the proletcult novel of Maxim Gorky, deals with anti-Czarist stirrings during the faltered 1905 Revolution. A worker son goes to prison because of his mother’s political inexperience. Afterward, the son attempts to escape, while his mother is attacked by horsebacked cavalry when she joins a workers’ demonstration. This is certainly Pudovkin’s most accessible work, prime Social Realism punctuated with his masterly montage.