Golden Mountains
1931Soviet "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?
Acted in
Boris Poslavsky
as Pyotr, the country boy
Ivan Shtraukh
as Vasili, Bolshevik organizer
Yuri Korvin-Krukovsky
as Industrialist Krutilov
Boris Feodosyev
as Krutilov's son
Boris Tenin
as Windy
Boris Chirkov
as Worker
Nikolai Michurin
as Nikolay Ivanovich
Konstantin Nazarenko
as One-eyed
Nikoloz Shengelaia
as One from Baku
Natalya Razumova
as The Girl
Fedor Slavski
as Worker
N. Sholkovskiy
as Local police
Leonid Kmit
as Worker
Pyotr Lobanov
as Worker
Ivan Savelyev
as Worker
Stepan Kayukov
as Worker
Ivan Selyanin
Konstantin Zyubko
Natalya Rostova
as Nana
Sergei Ponachevny
Yevgeniya Pyryalova
as Young lady at the factory gate