Golden Mountains
November 1931
88 mins
TMDB
5.5
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
Boris Poslavsky
Pyotr, the country boy
Ivan Shtraukh
Vasili, Bolshevik organizer
Yuri Korvin-Krukovsky
Industrialist Krutilov
Boris Feodosyev
Krutilov's son
Boris Tenin
Windy
Boris Chirkov
Worker
Nikolai Michurin
Nikolay Ivanovich
Konstantin Nazarenko
One-eyed
Nikoloz Shengelaia
One from Baku
Natalya Razumova
The Girl
