The End of St. Petersburg
About The End of St. Petersburg
In 1913 a peasant boy comes to St. Petersburg and stays with a Bolshevik worker. A strike hits the Lebedev factory. The boy, not meaning to, gives the worker away. He is arrested and sent into the army. In 1917 the Tsar falls, then the Provisional Government. Soldiers drop their rifles when he tells them to. The Soviets take the Winter Palace. The worker is back with his wife. The last titles say St. Petersburg is no more, and long live the city of Lenin.
Cast & crew
More about The End of St. Petersburg
Vsevolod Pudovkin directed with Mikhail Doller. Nathan Zarkhi wrote it. Anatoli Golovnya photographed. Mezhrabpom produced it for the tenth anniversary of October. Released December 14, 1927. Vera Baranovskaya, Ivan Chuvelyov, Vladimir Fogel, and Sergei Komarov are billed. Pudovkin also appears. It sits with Mother (1926) and Storm Over Asia (1928).
Themes
Look
Anatoli Golovnya shot the village, the factory, the war, and the palace assault.
Preservation
Prints survive, including the Kino edition.
Notes
- No minister or tsar is played. The people carry the years 1913 to 1917.
- The Kino DVD runs 87 minutes. Wikidata also lists 89.
- Vernon Duke finished an oratorio of the same name in 1937 after this film.
- The factory in the strike is Lebedev's.
Scenes
- The boy points out the striker and is himself taken for the army.
- The last title replaces St. Petersburg with the city of Lenin.
