A Petersburg Night (1934)
- Original title
- Петербургская ночь
- Directed by
- Vera Stroyeva, Grigori Roshal
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Runtime
- 1h 44m
- Rated
- G
- Rating
- 5.8 of 10 from 5 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A young woman arrives in St. Petersburg and forms a bond with a lonely dreamer. Their relationship is tested by the harsh realities of 19th century Russian society.
melancholicdreamlikepoignantintimateslow-burnatmosphericbittersweetlyrical
What happens
A Petersburg Night (Russian: Петербургская ночь) is a 1934 Soviet drama film directed by Grigori Roshal and Vera Stroyeva, loosely based on Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel Netochka Nezvanova and short story "White Nights". The film debut of actress Lyubov Orlova, the future star of Soviet cinema. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
More like this
- Thunderstorm (1934)
- Диво (1934)
- House of Greed (1934)
- Dreamers (1934)
- Odna radost' (1933)
- Father and son (film, 1936) (1936)
- The Nightingale (1936)
- The Four Visits of Samuel Wolfe (1934)
Browse movies and series
press Enter to search by title, your filters still apply · for something by mood, tap Discover
Lists: Korean thrillers worth the evening · Anime films beyond Studio Ghibli · Slow films for a rainy night · Horror that unsettles instead of startling · Series you can finish in a weekend · Nordic crime worth the subtitles · Good films that end in under 90 minutes · Documentaries that play like thrillers
Loading movies…