Underplayed Gems

The End of St. Petersburg (1927)

The End of St. Petersburg poster
Original title
Конец Санкт-Петербурга
Directed by
Mikhail Doller, Vsevolod Pudovkin
Genre
drama film, silent film, war film, propaganda film, historical film
Country
Soviet Union
Runtime
1h 29m
Rating
6.7 of 10 from 40 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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A peasant arrives in St. Petersburg and gets caught up in the political turmoil of World War I and the Russian Revolution. The film follows ordinary people struggling against the Tsarist regime and capitalists as the Bolsheviks rise to power.

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What happens

The End of St. Petersburg (Russian: Конец Санкт-Петербурга, romanized: Konets Sankt-Peterburga) is a 1927 silent drama 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. A historical-political film, it covers a period from 1913-1917, including the injustice of the Tsar regime, the First World War, and the Bolsheviks's rise to power in 1917. Political figures of the time are not shown; 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 forms part of Pudovkin's 'revolutionary trilogy', alongside Mother (1926) and Storm Over Asia (aka The Heir to Genghis Khan) (1928). The film inspired the composer Vernon Duke to write his eponymous oratorio (completed in 1937). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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