St. Jorgens's Day

Prazdnik svyatogo Yorgena (St. Jorgen's Day, Holiday of St. Jorgen, The Feast of St. Jorgen, Russian: Праздник Святого Йоргена) is a 1930 Soviet black and white film by Yakov Protazanov (also famous for Aelita). Uncredited are the original novel by Harald Bergstedt, and the cues written by Ilf and Petrov (with the additional contribution of Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky). Music by Sergei Boguslavsky. Before one of the church holiday a thief Korkis (A.... more

Prazdnik svyatogo Yorgena (St. Jorgen's Day, Holiday of St. Jorgen, The Feast of St. Jorgen, Russian: Праздник Святого Йоргена) is a 1930 Soviet black and white film by Yakov Protazanov (also famous for Aelita). Uncredited are the original novel by Harald Bergstedt, and the cues written by Ilf and Petrov (with the additional contribution of Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky). Music by Sergei Boguslavsky. Before one of the church holiday a thief Korkis (A. Ktorov) escapes from the prison and merges with the parish. He sees a vast amount of money that is settling in the clergymans pockets. Korkis can not hold out of another venture… Together with an accomplice (I.Ilyinsky) they conceive and realize a fraud to extract at least a small part of that money out of their pockets. Films from this period often combine silent and sound sequences. Most of St. Jorgen's Day was shot without recorded sound. These sequences have Russian intertitles, an orchestral and choral score, and occasional sound effects... less