https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/b7eb6053-c0e6-4d33-abb8-a28ebc418617 The End of St. Petersburg (1927) Konets Sankt-Peterburga, Конец Санкт-Петербурга, Silent. Russian with optional English text, Directors: Mikhail Doller, Vsevolod Pudovkin, Writer: Nathan Zarkhi, Featuring: Aleksandr Chistyakov, Vera Baranovskaya, Ivan Chuvelyov The End of St. Petersburg (Russian: Конец Санкт-Петербурга, romanized: Konets Sankt-Peterburga) is a 1927 silent drama film directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin and produced by Mezhrabpom. Commissioned to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the October Revolution, The End of St Petersburg was to be one of Pudovkin's most famous films and secured his place as one of the foremost Soviet montage film directors. from: https://www.slantmagazine.com/dvd/blu-ray-review-the-bolshevik-trilogy-three-films-by-vsevolod-pudovkin/ While Sergei Eistenstein’s montage theory shaped Russian cinema in the 1920s, other filmmakers—such as Dziga Vertov, Lev Kuleshov, and Kuleshov’s student, Vsevolod Pudovkin—had their own ideas about how editing could be deployed to maximum effect. Central to Pudovkin’s approach to cinema is his belief that “editing controls the psychological guidance of the spectator”—a quote that gets at the heart of his opposition to Eisenstein’s tendency to focus on the unified masses over individuals and create meaning through a dialectical collision of disparate images. In Eisenstein’s films, these collectives typically stand in opposition to their capitalist, autocratic oppressors, while individual characters primarily function as emotional signifiers rather than fully fleshed-out human beings. By contrast, Pudovkin’s films focus more on characters’ inner turmoil before spiraling out toward an understanding of collective organization and action. Where Eisenstein’s scene construction is often fragmented, abundant in jarring juxtapositions, Pudovkin’s is more fluid and psychologically motivated, wholly dependent on the specific characters within a given scene. Content Warnings: none listed on imdb nor dogdies war, poverty, explosions, flashing lights, gun violence, people die Thu, 09 Apr 2026 03:38:21 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://tankie.tube https://tankie.tube/lazy-static/avatars/3ba3ff73-a8b6-49c9-add8-9653ef090c7f.webp https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/b7eb6053-c0e6-4d33-abb8-a28ebc418617 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tankie.tube/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.