St Jorgens Day
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Director Yakov Protazanov Music director Sergei Boguslavsky | 7/10 IMDb Genre Comedy Duration Country Soviet Union | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Language Russian
Part-talkie with
Russian intertitles Writer Harald Bergstedt , Ilya Ilf , Yevgeni Petrov , Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky Release date 1930 (1930) Cast Igor Ilyinsky, Anatoli Ktorov, Mikhail Klimov, Vladimir Uralsky Screenplay Ilya Ilf, Yevgeny Petrov, Vladimir Shvejtser, Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky Similar movies Related Yakov Protazanov movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
St jorgen s day 1930 movie
St. Jorgen's Day, (Holiday of St. Jorgen, The Feast of St. Jorgen, Russian: Праздник Святого Йоргена, Prazdnik svyatogo Yorgena) is a 1930 Soviet, partly silent comedy film by Yakov Protazanov and starring Igor Ilyinsky.
Contents
Uncredited are the original novel by Harald Bergstedt, and the cues written by Ilf and Petrov (with the additional contribution of Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky).
Plot summary
Before the church holiday celebrating St. Jorgen, the thief Korkis (Anatoli Ktorov) escapes from prison and mingles with the gathering celebrants. He sees the large amounts of money being made by those hosting the celebration, who are mainly clergy. Korkis cannot refrain from getting involved in this venture. Together with an accomplice (Igor Ilyinsky) they conceive and realize a way to fraudulently extract at least a small part of the money flowing into the hosts' coffers.
Cast
Credited crew
Part-talkie
Films from this period often combine silent and sound sequences.
Most of St. Jorgen's Day was shot without recorded sound. These sequences have Russian intertitles, an orchestral and choral score, and occasional sound effects (e.g. the sound of a hand knocking on a door) or added dialogue. A specific scene can use sound effects and intertitles together. The often-impressive exterior scenes were shot silent on location. Interspersed throughout the film are short indoor scenes with recorded sound. The opening credit sequence uses sound, with the principal performers speaking in costume as their characters.
Quotes
- And how about ascendables? (Korkis, talking about money)
References
St. Jorgen's Day WikipediaSt. Jorgens Day IMDb St. Jorgens Day themoviedb.org