The End of St. Petersburg

The End of St. Petersburg (1927) is a Soviet silent drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin. A young peasant arrives in the capital looking for factory work, stumbles into a strike, and ends up in prison without quite understanding what he did wrong. Then comes the front line.

Pudovkin builds each stage of the man's radicalization as a blunt collision — no inner monologue, just events and consequences. Vera Baranovskaya and Ivan Chuvelyov lead the cast; the editing carries the argument. Alongside Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin, this is the other cornerstone of Soviet silent cinema from that year. Watch The End of St. Petersburg (1927) online on iFILM.