The Last Night
About The Last Night
At a ball, students and officers mock Kuzma Zakharkin, the cook's son, for loving factory-owner Leontyev's daughter Lena. Cannon fire starts the Moscow workers' uprising. Sailor Pyotr Zakharkin arrives from Petrograd as Alexei Leontyev slips into the city in civilian clothes. Pyotr's Red Guard detachment takes a school, loses brother Ilya to an officer's shot, and then takes the Bryansk station, Alexei among the prisoners. Reinforcements sent against the uprising join it instead.
Cast & crew
More about The Last Night
Yuli Raizman directed and wrote with Yevgeny Gabrilovich. Dmitry Feldman photographed it and Alexander Veprik composed the score. Wikidata lists 98 minutes and the dates February 2, 1937, and April 27, 1937, while the catalog year kept here is 1936, the year on the Wikimedia file.
Themes
Background
The night is the Moscow armed uprising of 1917, cross-cut between the Leontyev household and the Zakharkin family.
Look
Dmitry Feldman photographed the Mosfilm production.
Music
Alexander Veprik is the composer on Wikidata.
Notes
- Ivan Pelttser plays Yegor Zakharkin and Nikolai Dorokhin plays Pyotr.
- Aleksey Konsovsky plays Kuzma and Tatiana Okunevskaya plays Lena Leontyeva.
- Pyotr's order is to cut the Alexandrov Military School off from the Bryansk station.
- Old Zakharkin stands guard with a Berdan rifle over the captured factory owner.
Scenes
- Cannon fire breaks up the ball where Kuzma is being mocked.
- Soldiers sent to support the counterrevolution get off the train and join the uprising.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (1936 Последняя ночь.webm)
