Petersburg Nights
About Petersburg Nights
Serf violinist Egor Efimov wants to play music that is his own. His landlord frees him. He goes to St. Petersburg. The city wears the hope down. The script draws on Dostoevsky's Netochka Nezvanova and the story "White Nights."
Cast & crew
More about Petersburg Nights
Grigori Roshal and Vera Stroyeva directed. Serafima Roshal wrote the script. Dmitry Feldman photographed. Dmitry Kabalevsky wrote the music. Mosfilm released it on February 19, 1934. It is Lyubov Orlova's first film. Boris Dobronravov and Kseniya Tarasova lead the billed cast with her.
Themes
Look
Dmitry Feldman shot the Petersburg streets and the rooms where Egor plays.
Music
Dmitry Kabalevsky wrote the score around Egor's violin.
Preservation
A print survives.
Notes
- Orlova's debut. She was not yet the musical-comedy lead of the later Alexandrov films.
- The sources are two Dostoevsky texts, not one novel.
- Anatoli Goryunov, Lev Fenin, and Igor Doronin are also billed.
- The Russian title is Петербургская ночь.
Scenes
- The landlord frees Egor, and Egor leaves for Petersburg with the violin.
Influenced by
- Fyodor Dostoevsky's Netochka Nezvanova
- Fyodor Dostoevsky's "White Nights
