Underskog

THE END OF ST. PETERSBURG – SILENT FILM CONCERT
KONETS SANKT-PETERBURGA

This is a follow-up to last year’s BarentsTIFF silent film concert project, with a new film and new musicians. The music is composed and performed by musicians from Tromsø and Petrozavodsk, working together for the first time when they make the music for THE END OF ST PETERSBURG. The project is made possible by a grant from BarentsKULT.

A peasant is not allowed to leave his work in the field when his wife goes into labor. She dies in childbirth, and he leaves for the big city to find work. He is very naive, and discovers too late how strikes and labor unions work. The consequences are dramatic and he ends up in prison. When he gets out, he has no other choice than to join the army. The film describes World War I in all its horror, showing how the war also made it possible for the rich to speculate and become even richer – and how the revolution was a reaction to this.

The film was commissioned to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the 1917 revolution. It is an epic work – a milestone in Soviet filmmaking, and a classic in world film history. THE END OF ST PETERSBURG is the second in Pudovkin’s revolutionary trilogy, coming after THE MOTHER (1926) and before STORM OVER ASIA (1928).

The concert takes place on Friday January 22th at Verdensteatret.

FACTS

RUSSLAND, 1927
DIRECTOR: Vsevolod Pudovkin
SCREENPLAY: Nathan Zarkhi
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Anatoli Golovnya
CAST: Aleksandr Chistyakov, Vera Baranovskaya, Ivan Chuvelyov, V. Obolenskij
RUNNING TIME: 1h 29m
SALES: Mosfilm/Gosmofilm
SCREENINGS

Verdensteatret
22. Jan kl 20:00