GOLDEN MOUNTAINS (1931)

Golden Mountains
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Golden Mountains
Drama
November 6, 1931
Russian
1h 28m
Soviet Union

Soviet "proletarian" film about anti-war strike at St Petersburg factory, 1914. Resembles Pudovkin's classic "End of St. Petersburg," made 4 years earlier: backward lad (Poslavsky) from poor village comes to town desperate for work. He's hired as replacement ("scab") worker at big metallurgical factory, which is in the throes of a strike organized by the Bolsheviks (communists). The Bolshevik strikers are led by Ivan Shtraukh (brother of the more famous Russian actor Maxim Shtraukh). At first, the deceitful industrialist's son (Fedosev) involves the naive Poslavsky in an attempt to murder Shtraukh, but the attempt only wounds the heroic organizer. Will Poslavsky follow through with the planned killing, or will he redeem himself by going over to the side of the strikers?

Cast & Characters

Boris Poslavsky

Pyotr, the country boy

Ivan Shtraukh

Vasili, Bolshevik organizer

Yuri Korvin-Krukovsky

Industrialist Krutilov

Boris Feodosyev

Krutilov's son

Nikolai Michurin

Nikolay Ivanovich

Nikoloz Shengelaia

One from Baku

N. Sholkovskiy

Local police

Yevgeniya Pyryalova

Young lady at the factory gate

Crew

Dmitri Shostakovich

Original Music Composer

Vladimir Rapoport

Director of Photography

Iosif Martov

Director of Photography

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