HEART OF A MOTHER 1966 Mark Donskoy VLADIMIR ILICH LENIN RUSSIAN POSTER

Original Russian 25 inch x 40 3/4 inch Poster for the 1966 Mark Donskoy Drama HEART OF A MOTHER (SERDTSE MATERI) starring Yelena Fadeyeva as Mariya Aleksandrovna Ulyanova (Lenin’s mother, Daniil Sagal as Ilya Nikolayevich Ulyanov (Lenin’s father) and Rodion Nahapetov as Vladimir Ilich Lenin.

The formative years of Bolshevist leader Vladimir Ulyanov (aka Lenin) provides the basis of this Russian biopic that begins in Simbirsk, a provincial town in the late 19th-century where a widow contends with her six socially-conscious and politically active children. Her husband had also been a staunch supporter of peasant rights. Her eldest daughter and son are studying in the university and trouble ensues when they are arrested for conspiring to murder the czar. Because the son refuses to deny his desire to kill the czar, he is executed. The daughter is then exiled and the widow moves her family to remain close to her. The youngest boy, Vladimir, was terribly impressed by his older brother's heroism and vows to follow his footsteps. He becomes a lawyer and sets up a practice near his mother, but in his heart, Vladimir wants to be in the thick of things in Moscow. The mother gives in and sends the rest of the children to the great city. She and Lenin then take off on a crusade across the entire country.

Poster art by Sergey Ignatievich Datskevich (1919 - 1977). A graduate of Art Schools in Kiev and Kharkov, Datskevich began designing posters in 1949.

The poster is in very good folded condition.