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The End of St. Petersburg

192787 minSoviet Union
DramaWar
Video edition
Wikimedia Commons
Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: Russian.
This copy runs
73:21
Subtitles
English

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Wikimedia Commons · Межрабпом-Русь · Public domain

Subtitles: Wikimedia Commons · Open Classic Cinema

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Synopsis

A young peasant reaches St. Petersburg looking for work and unknowingly helps a factory suppress a strike. The consequences of that mistake, followed by military service and war, change his understanding of the people around him. His personal awakening becomes part of a larger account of hunger, labour conflict and revolution.

Cast

DirectorsVsevolod PudovkinMikhail Doller

Historical context

Commissioned for the October Revolution's tenth anniversary, Pudovkin's film follows ordinary workers and soldiers rather than concentrating on prominent political leaders. It belongs to his revolutionary trilogy alongside Mother and Storm over Asia.

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