1927 · drama · silent · historical
The End of St. Petersburg
Directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin1h 14m1927
Shortly before the outbreak of WWI, a peasant from rural Russia arrives in St. Petersburg to find work.
Our read: The End of St. Petersburg (1927) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive drama · silent · historical entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, kinetic, extreme drama / silent, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
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