THE END OF ST. PETERSBURG (1927) B/W "silent" 88m (122m) dir: V.I. Pudovkin

w/Ivan Chuvelev, Vera Baranovskaya, A.P. Chistiakov, Sergei Komorov, V. Obolenski, V.I. Pudovkin

In 1917 Russia, an unschooled peasant boy goes to St. Petersburg and witnesses the October Revolution. This film, commissioned by the Soviet government for the 10th anniversary of the 1917 Revolution, puts a human face on the revolution and contains some extraordinary montages.

From Georges Sadoul's Dictionary of Films: "Famous sequences: the monuments of the Tsarist capital overwhelming the young peasant; the declaration of war and the accomapnying frenzy; the terrible conditions at the front contrasted with the capitalists' joy in the stock exchange at their increasing profits; the comradeship at the front between Russian and German soldiers; the October Revolution."