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Mother: Chapter One

Mother: Chapter One

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Mother: Chapter One

"Who really is the Devil?"

2025

0h 11m

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Drama

Overview

Having deceived his nurse and left his mother to live out her life alone, a man believes he has bought himself peace. But there is a price to pay for everything, and the price turns out to be higher than he thought.

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Production Companies

Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Karyi Theatre, Cinema and Television University

Dmytro Tomashpolskyi's workshop "Centaurs"

The people behind it

Cast & crew

9 featured cast members

Starring

Oleksandr Levytskyi

Oleksandr Levytskyi

Anton

Iryna Zhydkova

Raisa

Tamara Myshunina

Tamara Myshunina

Mother

Heorhii Pliiev

Heorhii Pliiev

Heorhii

Bogdan Vakulenko

Bogdan Vakulenko

Doctor

Daniil Koliadin

Daniil Koliadin

TCR worker

Artem Shteynle

Man in the bar

Zakhar Shestiaiev

Zakhar Shestiaiev

Man in the bar

Maria Irchak

Maria Irchak

Woman in the bar

Creative team

Directed by: Zakhar Shestiaiev
Written by: Zakhar Shestiaiev
Guy de Maupassant
Produced by: Zakhar Shestiaiev
Daniil Koliadin

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