Kepley V. The Film Companion: The End of St Petersburg

London, 2003. — 133 p.Written for cineastes and students alike, KINOfiles are readable, authoritative, illustrated companion handbooks to the most important and interesting films to emerge from Russian cinema from its beginnings to the present. Each KINOfile investigates the production, context and reception of the film and the people who made it, and analyses the film itself and its place in Russian and world cinema. KINOfiles also include films of the other countries that once formed part of the Soviet Union, as well as works by émigré filmmakers working in the Russian tradition.
Vsevolod Pudovkin holds a deserving place in the cinema pantheon as one the foremost Soviet montage directors. His ‘revolutionary trilogy’ of The Mother [Mat’, 1926], The End of St. Petersburg [Konets Sankt-Peterburga, 1927] and Storm Over Asia [Potomok Chingis-khana (The Heir of Genghis-Khan), 1928] secured his international reputation, and ensured that his name would be linked with other lionized members of the Soviet avant-garde, including Sergei Eisenstein, Dziga Vertov and Alexander Dovzhenko.