Golden Mountains (Russian: Златые горы, romanized: Zlatye gory) is a 1931 Soviet silent drama film directed by Sergei Yutkevich. A re-edited sound version of the film was released in 1936.[1][2]
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Directed by | Sergei Yutkevich |
Written by | Lev Arnshtam Aleksei Chapygin Andrei Mikhailovsky Vladimir Nedobrovo Sergei Yutkevich |
Starring | Boris Poslavsky |
Cinematography | Iosif Martov Vladimir Rapoport |
Music by | Dmitri Shostakovich |
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Running time | 3,585 meters (95 minutes) |
Country | Soviet Union |
Languages | Silent film Russian intertitles |
Plot
editThe film is set in the year 1914. Having received a large military order, the administration of the St. Petersburg metallurgical plant "Krutilov and Son" is attracting new workers. However at the plant a strike is looming under the influence of a powerful strike movement of the Baku oil workers'.
The engineer, son of the factory owner, tries to bribe the former farmer Pyotr and make him the leader of the newly arrived workers. In this case the engineer is actively helped by the master. Pyotr takes part in the assassination of activist-worker Vasili. As a result of the circumstances the hero is forced to bring home the wounded Bolshevik. Once in the environment of striking workers Pyotr enters into their ranks and engages in class struggle.
Cast
edit- Boris Poslavsky - Pyotr, the country boy
- Yuri Korvin-Krukovsky - Industrialist Krutilov
- Boris Fedosyev - Krutilov's son
- Ivan Shtraukh - Vasili, Bolshevik organizer
- Boris Tenin - Windy
- Nikolai Michurin -Nikolai (foreman)
- Natalya Razumova -The Girl
- Konstantin Nazarenko
- Nikoloz Shengelaya -Man from Baku oil fields
- Fyodor Slavsky
- Leonid Kmit
- Stepan Kayukov
- Boris Chirkov
References
edit- ^ Golden Mountains (1931) | MUBI, retrieved 26 November 2023
- ^ "Film "Golden Mountains" Overview - SHOSTAKOVI.CH - The Page of Shostakovich". shostakovi.ch. Retrieved 26 November 2023.
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