Timid old woman Pelageya Nilovna observes the revolutionary activities of her son Pavel Vlasov and gradually comes to realize that his cause is a great and noble one. She involves herself in the movement and finds joy and great courage in her new life as a revolutionary. Based on Gorky's novel, filmed in the silent era by Pudovkin.

• Dovzhenko Film Studios
• Vera Maretskaya
• Aleksey Batalov
• Tatyana Piletskaya
• Andrei Petrov
• Sergei Kurilov
• Liliya Gritsenko
• Pavel Usovnichenko
• Nikifor Kolofidin