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Screenplay
  
Nathan Zarkhi

Writer
  
Nathan Zarkhi

7.6/10
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Genre
  
Drama

Duration
  

Country
  
Soviet Union

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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).

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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.

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

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Plot

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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.

Cast

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  • Alexander Chistyakov - Bolshevik worker
  • Vera Baranovskaya - his wife
  • Ivan Chuvelev - peasant boy
  • Sergey Komarov - bailiff
  • Nikolai Khmelyov - speculator
  • Alexander Gromov - bald Bolshevik
  • Vladimir Obolensky - Lebedev, manufacturer
  • Mikhail Tereshkovich - journalist
  • Mark Cybulski - speculator
  • Vladimir Chuvelev - scab
  • Vsevolod Pudovkin - soldier (uncredited)
  • Vladimir Fogel - German officer (uncredited)
  • Serafim Birman - lady with a fan (uncredited)
  • Victor Tsoppi - anti-German "patriot" in a top hat (uncredited)

  • The End of St. Petersburg This Week on Demand 17022013 Next Projection

    References

    The End of St. Petersburg Wikipedia
    The End of St. Petersburg IMDb The End of St. Petersburg themoviedb.org


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