The End of St. Petersburg (1927) on Netflix
A peasant boy arrives in St. Petersburg to find work and stays in a Bolshevik worker's basement apartment. When the Lebedev factory goes on strike, he is offered a place there.
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Plot summary
In the years before the First World War, a peasant boy from a rural community travels to St. Petersburg to find work and lodges in a Bolshevik worker's basement apartment. The workforce at the factory of the manufacturer Lebedev goes on strike and the worker's wife fears that her family will starve. The factory offers the boy a job at the works. He tells the management which of the men began the strike and he takes them to the home of the Bolshevik worker, the apartment where he himself has been staying. The Bolshevik worker and his fellow communists are arrested.
Cast
- Sergei Komarovas District Police Chief
- Maks Tereshkovichas Reporter
- V. Chuvelyovas Village Lad's Friend among New Workers
- Mark Tsibulskyas Stock Broker
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The End of St. Petersburg (1927)
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- Pudovkin's silent film inspired the composer Vernon Duke to write an oratorio of the same name, which he completed in 1937.
