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The End of St. Petersburg (1927)

21 Feb

80m; U.S.S.R.

Director: Vsevolod Pudovkin, Mikhail Doller

Cast: Vera Baranovskaya, Aleksandr Chistyakov and Ivan Chuvelyov

Synopsis: 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. The unemployed peasant is also arrested and sent to fight in World War I. After three years, he returns ready for revolution.

 
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Posted by on February 21, 2012 in Drama, Organizing, Politics, War, Working Class

 

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