Created to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the October Revolution, the film tells the story of how the Bolshevik party came to power, but through the lens of a peasant boy’s journey from slave laborer to political revolutionary. Pudovkin employed a mix of classical and montage editing styles to produce a feeling of tension in the audience. The result is both a deeply emotional and stylized work of epic filmmaking. Featuring a live musical accompaniment by long-time FLEFF collaborators, Cloud Chamber Orchestra.
Cinemapolis: 8:30pm, Saturday April 12 - with live musical accompaniment by Cloud Chamber Orchestra and pre-screening introduction by Zenon Wasyliw
trailer
The End of St. Petersburg (with live musical accompaniment)
Vsevolod Pudovkin, Soviet Union, 1927, 90 mins
