已故印尼大導演Teguh Karya經典代表作，當年在印尼金像獎寫下九項大獎的光輝新紀錄!雅加達寡婦Rakhim育有四名子女，仔大女大卻家無寧日，嫁給暴發戶的長女不滿四妹的男友有違家族血脈的傳統，四妹憤而離家出走，三哥為了全力發展演藝事業，拋妻棄子，母親很難視若無睹，以最大的包容讓子女們再回歸愛的原點，最終冰釋前嫌作大團員結局。有別於八十年代的印尼家庭倫理片，《母親》沒有呼天搶地的煽情言情，Teguh Karya不慍不火說了一個家的故事，憑敏銳的觸角拍出一個跨種族、政治、性別的印尼片。一代影后Tuti Indra Malaon鏡頭裡的謙卑和等待，慈母的動容演出叫人難忘。

Widow Rakhim (Tuti Indra Malaon) is suddenly confronted with two crises in her family. Her son Zulfikar (Alex Komang) has left his wife and child to carry on an affair with an actress who can sponsor him. Meanwhile, her older daughter Farida’s (Niniek L. Karim) fierce disapproval of her younger daughter Fitri (Ria Irawan) dating a man who isn’t Javanese drives the latter to run away from home. Sweeping nine Citra Awards at the 1986 Indonesian Film Festival, Teguh Karya’s Jakarta-set family melodrama is notable for its acute depiction of the lives, mindsets and mannerisms of middle-class Javanese, and for bringing up the issue of racial discrimination in contemporary Indonesia.