The End of St Petersburg
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Screenplay Nathan Zarkhi Writer Nathan Zarkhi | 7.6/10 IMDb Genre Drama Duration | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Language Silent filmRussian intertitles Director Vsevolod PudovkinMikhail Doller Release date December 14, 1927 Initial release December 13, 1927 (Soviet Union) Music director Alfred Schnittke, Herbert Stothart, Vladimir Yurovskiy, Andrei Shnitke Cast (German Officer #1), (His wife), Aleksandr Chistiakov (A worker), Ivan Chuvelev (Peasant boy), (German Officer #2)Similar A Sixth Part of the World, The Children of Captain Grant (film), Girl Friends (1936 film) |
The end of st petersburg 1927 movie
The End of St. Petersburg (Russian: Конец Санкт-Петербурга, Konets Sankt-Peterburga) is a 1927 silent film directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin and produced by Mezhrabpom. Commissioned to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the October Revolution, The End of St Petersburg was to be one of Pudovkin's most famous films and secured his place as one of the foremost Soviet montage film directors.
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The film forms part of Pudovkin's 'revolutionary trilogy', alongside Mother (1926) and Storm Over Asia (aka The Heir to Genghis Khan) (1928).

The End of St. Petersburg is a political film, explaining why and how the Bolsheviks came to power in 1917. The film covers the period from about 1913 to 1917. The film does not show the political figures of the time; the emphasis is on the struggle of ordinary people for their rights and for peace against the power of capital and the autocracy.

The film inspired the composer Vernon Duke to write his eponymous oratorio (completed in 1937).

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Plot

A simple peasant boy arrives in St. Petersburg to obtain employment. Fate leads him to a factory where there are severe, almost slave-like working conditions. He unwittingly helps in the arrest of an old village friend who is now a labor leader. He attempts to fix his wrongdoing but ends up in a fight and then arrested. His punishment is being sent to fight in World War I. After three years, he returns ready for revolution.
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