Stummfilm um Mitternacht: Das Ende von St. Petersburg [Konjez Sankt-Peterburga] [OmeU] SU 1927, R: Wsewolod Pudowkin mit Alexander Tschistjakow, Wera Baranowskaja, Iwan Tschuwelew, 105 Min

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THE END OF ST. PETERSBURG is a revolutionary film of great significance in the history of cinema, directed by the famous Russian director Vsevolod Pudovkin.

It depicts the transformation of a farm labourer into a revolutionary, the storming of the Winter Palace and the renaming of St. Petersburg as Leningrad.

The film is the second part of Pudovkin's revolutionary trilogy, which began with THE MOTHER (1926) and ended with STORM OVER ASIA (1928). All three works had a groundbreaking effect and were enthusiastically received around the world.

The hero in THE END OF ST. PETERSBURG, Ivan, a peasant boy, leaves his village during the famine and goes to St. Petersburg to look for work.

He quickly learns that the situation in the city is even more miserable than in the countryside. Workers' leaders meet in the apartment of the family that is putting Ivan up to organise a strike. When his host's wife reproaches her husband for not bringing any money into the house, Ivan, more out of ignorance than conscious intent, becomes a strike breaker and even betrays his acquaintance, who is arrested.

Despite her hardship, his wife refuses to accept the money Ivan has received for his betrayal. Ivan's view of the world only changes when he experiences war at the front.

After three years in the trenches, the farm boy has become a revolutionary who takes part in the storming of the Winter Palace.