Golden Mountains (1931)
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?
Director: Sergei Yutkevich
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Boris Poslavsky as Pyotr, the country boy |
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Ivan Shtraukh as Vasili, Bolshevik organizer |
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Yuri Korvin-Krukovsky as Industrialist Krutilov |
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Boris Feodosyev as Krutilov's son |
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Boris Tenin as Windy |
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Boris Chirkov as Worker |
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Nikolai Michurin as Nikolay Ivanovich |
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Konstantin Nazarenko as One-eyed |
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Nikoloz Shengelaia as One from Baku |
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Natalya Razumova as The Girl |
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Fedor Slavski as Worker |
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N. Sholkovskiy as Local police |
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Leonid Kmit as Worker |
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Pyotr Lobanov as Worker |
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Ivan Savelyev as Worker |
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Stepan Kayukov as Worker |
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Ivan Selianin as |
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Konstantin Zyubko as |
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Natalya Rostova as Nana |
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Sergei Ponachevny as |
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Yevgeniya Pyryalova as Young lady at the factory gate |
| Directing | Sergei Yutkevich | Director |
| Writing | Lev Arnshtam | Writer |
| Writing | Aleksei Chapygin | Writer |
| Writing | Andrey Mikhaylovskiy | Writer |
| Writing | Vladimir Nedobrovo | Writer |
| Writing | Sergei Yutkevich | Writer |
| Camera | Vladimir Rapoport | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Dmitri Shostakovich | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Iosif Martov | Director of Photography |
