Celebrating the tenth year of the Russian revolution, Vsevolod Pudovkin, filmed this story of the fall of the city of St. Petersburg which eventually became Leningrad. The film is told from the point of view of a peasant who gets his friend, a revolutionary in trouble with the authorities.
This film is extremely well directed with each shot carefully composed and edited. Pudovkin has a very strong visual sense along with a careful editing rhythm.
This film seems a lot easier to watch than that other Russian film I sat through, Earth. There is something about these lefty intellectual artists who attempt dramatize the lives of the "ordinary people." Their efforts always smack of a condescending intellectualism. The End of St. Petersburg seems to be able to avoid this for most of the film .
To use an overworked word this is a very "cinematic" film experience in spite of the age and subject matter of the film.
80 minutes
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