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Goodbye, Mother

Goodbye, Mother

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 1, 1966

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

До свидания, мама

Production Companies

Leningrad Documentary Film Studio

Director

Mikhail Litvyakov

Description

“This film discloses the responsibility adults bear towards children whom they abandon. This is a problem of society’s responsibility to its future. The war ended long ago, but the children’s homes were overflowing in the 1960s. When I found out about this, I was simply dumbfounded. I did not want to read the viewers a lecture, but hoped to affect them on an emotional level. This is one of my most beloved pictures. This is a motto of kindness, mercy, a message from man to the individual, this is the problem of a person’s responsibility to the future” (director Mikhail Litvyakov).