Vsevolod PUDOVKIN
Всеволод ПУДОВКИН
Vsevolod POUDOVKINE
USSR, 1927, 74mn 
Black and white, silent, fiction
The End of St. Petersburg
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Конец Санкт-Петербурга

 

 Les Derniers jours de Saint-Petersbourg

 Konets Sankt-Peterburg

Russian subtitle : Петербург-Петроград-Ленинград (Peterbourg-Petrograd-Leningrad)
 
Directed by : Vsevolod PUDOVKIN (Всеволод ПУДОВКИН)
Writing credits : Natan ZARKHI (Натан ЗАРХИ)
 
Cast
Vera BARANOVSKAYA (Вера БАРАНОВСКАЯ)
Serafima BIRMAN (Серафима БИРМАН)
Aleksandr CHISTIAKOV (Александр ЧИСТЯКОВ) ...Un ouvrier
Ivan CHUVELEV (Иван ЧУВЕЛЕВ) ...Un ouvrier récemment embauché
Vladimir FOGEL (Владимир ФОГЕЛЬ)
Aleksandr GROMOV (Александр ГРОМОВ)
Nikolay KHMELEV (Николай ХМЕЛЕВ)
Sergey KOMAROV (Сергей КОМАРОВ) ...Le commissaire de police
Vladimir OBOLENSKY (Владимир ОБОЛЕНСКИЙ)
Vsevolod PUDOVKIN (Всеволод ПУДОВКИН)
 
Cinematography : Anatoli GOLOVNIA (Анатолий ГОЛОВНЯ)
Production design : Sergey KOZLOVSKI (Сергей КОЗЛОВСКИЙ)
Music : Vladimir YUROVSKY (Владимир ЮРОВСКИЙ)
Sound : Valentina LADYGINA (Валентина ЛАДЫГИНА)
Production : Mosfilm, Mejrabpom-Rus (Межрабпом-Русь)
Restauration : 1969 (Mosfilm)
Release date in Russia : 13/12/1927
 
DVD with subtitles
Editor : Eureka video
Editor : Bach Films
Editor : Editions Montparnasse. 2010
Plot synopsis
Shows changing conditions in Russia as seen by a young peasant who lived through the upheaval in St. Petersburg that culminated in the revolution of 1917. Made for the 10th anniversary of the Russian revolution.
Source : www.lib.berkeley.edu/
 
Commentaries
A century of cinephilia: the legacy of the Film Society, Henry K MILLER, bfi.org.uk, 2025
La guerre dans le cinéma soviétique, Éric AUNOBLE, ehne.fr, 2021
Monumental Sculptures in Soviet Cinema of the 1920s, Evgeniy MARGOLIT, Kinokultura, 2009
The End of St. Petersburg, Vance KEPLEY, I.B.Tauris, 2003
Les origines du cinéma soviétique : un regard neuf, Myriam TSIKOUNAS, Cerf, 1992
 
Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Childhood and Soviet cinema, (kinoglaz.fr), 2026
- The Golden Age of Soviet Cinema : 1924-1930, (kinoglaz.fr), 2023
- Strasbourg two weeks of Russian cinema, Strasbourg (France), 2017
- Institut Lumière - Centenaire de la révolution d'octobre 1917, Lyon (France), 2017
- Fondation Jérôme Seydoux. Octobre 1917, une révolution en images, Paris (France), 2017
- Arras International Film Festival, Arras (France), 2017
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2014
- Cinéma Russie Institut Lumière, Lyon (France), 2012
- Moscow, St-Petersburg, two capitals, one country, Toulouse (France), 2010
- Année croisée France-Russia, (kinoglaz.fr), 2010
- Tromso International Film Festival : TIFF, Tromso (Norway), 2010
- Pessac International History Film Festival, Pessac (France), 2008
- Once "October" - Cinéma Odyssée, Strasbourg (France), 2007
- Images Russie 1908-1930 au musée d'Orsay, Paris (kinoglaz.fr), 2005
- Europalia Russia 2005, Brussels (kinoglaz.fr), 2005
- Nantes Russian Film Festival, Nantes (France), 2003
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