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Directors:
Writer:
Nathan Zarkhi (writer)
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Release Date:
30 May 1928 (USA) more
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Plot:
A peasant comes to St. Petersburg to find work. He unwittingly helps in the arrest of an old village friend who is now a labor leader... more | add synopsis
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Startling early Russian silent more (7 total)

Cast

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Vera Baranovskaya ... His wife
Aleksandr Chistyakov ... A worker
Ivan Chuvelyov ... Peasant boy
Aleksei Davor
Vladimir Fogel ... German Officer
Aleksandr Gromov ... Revolutionary (as A. Gromov)
Nikolai Khmelyov
Sergei Komarov ... His employer
V. Obolensky ... Lebedev
Vsevolod Pudovkin ... German Officer
Max Tereshkovich
Viktor Tsoppi ... Patriot
M. Tsybulsky
Anna Zemtsova
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Конец Санкт-Петербурга (Soviet Union: Russian title)
The End of St. Petersburg
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Runtime:
USA:80 min | Spain:77 min (DVD special edition)
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1.33 : 1 more
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Startling early Russian silent, 14 April 2007
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Author: tbyrne4 from United States

Wow!! I wasn't expecting something like this. Quite frankly, silent Russian directors make American directors of the same era look anemic by comparison.

Nearly every shot in this film is poetry - beautifully composed, lit, not over-acted (like so many silents), simple, and brutally powerfully. The faces, the atmosphere. Vsevolod had an AMAZING eye for composition. The close-ups are gorgeous and intense and fiery and the wide shots are breathtaking in the way they emphasize man's fragile diminutive size.

Of course, this is a propaganda film, so the upper class are portrayed as fat, hysterical beast-people and the lower-class are all rough-hewn and beautiful, but WHO CARES when the movie is this good! And this is during the age of Eisenstein so the quick-cut editing comes into play during the end with the big overthrow of St. Petersburg with great edits that are nearly subliminal.

Wonderful stuff

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