| Brief Description: | Commissioned, as was Eisenstein's Ten Days That Shook the World, to
celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Russian Revolution, End of St.
Petersburg shows the basic difference in approach between Eisenstein
and Pudovkin. Pudovkin concentrates on a peasant who comes to St.
Petersburg for a visit and becomes "politicized," believing in strike
and revolution. Pudovkin focuses on the individual, with the emotional
power of the film emerging from seeing the effects of the Revolution
on common people. With Ivan Chuvelyov and Vera Baranovskaya. English |
