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Golden Mountains

Golden Mountains (1931)

1h 28m | PG-13

⭐ 5.5 / 10

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

Studio: N/A

Genre: Drama

Video: 720p

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Cast

Boris Poslavsky

Boris Poslavsky

as Pyotr, the country boy

Ivan Shtraukh

Ivan Shtraukh

as Vasili, Bolshevik organizer

Yuri Korvin-Krukovsky

Yuri Korvin-Krukovsky

as Industrialist Krutilov

Boris Feodosyev

Boris Feodosyev

as Krutilov's son

Boris Tenin

Boris Tenin

as Windy

Boris Chirkov

Boris Chirkov

as Worker