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St. Jorgen's Day
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Wikipedia article
'St. Jorgen's Day',"The crudely antireligious 'Holiday of St. Iorgen' (aka 'St. Jorgen's Day'...)", 'Rollberg' (q.v.), p. 548. ('Holiday of St. Jorgen', 'The Feast of St. Jorgen', ) is a 1930 Soviet, partly silent comedy film by Yakov Protazanov and starring Igor Ilyinsky.
Uncredited are the original novel by Harald Bergstedt, and the cues written by Ilf and Petrov (with the additional contribution of Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky).
Plot summary
Before the church holiday celebrating St. Jorgen, the thief Korkis (Anatoli Ktorov) escapes from prison and mingles with the gathering celebrants. He sees the large amounts of money being made by those hosting the celebration, who are mainly clergy. Korkis cannot refrain from getting involved in this venture. Together with an accomplice (Igor Ilyinsky) they conceive and realize a way to fraudulently extract at least a small part of the money flowing into the hosts' coffers.
Cast
* Igor Ilyinsky as 'Franz Schulz'
* Anatoli Ktorov as 'Michael Korkis'
* Mikhail Klimov as 'adjunct of the St. Jorgen church'
* Igor Arkadin as 'treasurer of St. Jorgen Church'
* Mariya Strelkova as 'Oleandra'
* Vladimir Uralsky as 'conductor of the railway'
* Anatoli Goryunov
* Feofan Shipulinsky
Credited crew
*Director: Yakov Protazanov
*Script: Yakov Protazanov, Vladimir Shveitser
*Operator: P. Yermolov
*Co-director: Porfiri Podobed
*Composer: Sergei Bugoslavsky
*Soundmaster: D. Blok
*Zvuk: S. Yurtsev, N. Ozornov
*Orchestra and chorus of Mezhrabpom-Film
*Tagefon sound system
Part-talkie
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 (e.g. the sound of a hand knocking on a door) or added dialogue. A specific scene can use sound effects and intertitles together. The often-impressive exterior scenes were shot silent on location. Interspersed throughout the film are short indoor scenes with recorded sound. The opening credit sequence uses sound, with the principal performers speaking in costume as their characters.Source: DVD release from .
Quotes
* Primary task in a thief profession as in the saint profession is to vanish at right time!
* Learn how to handle it without a jemmy!
* When I was just an infant... My dear poor mother had dropped me from the ...nth floor...
* - Please, make one more miracle - an ascension!
- And how about 'ascendables'? (Korkis, talking about money)
See also
*The Tailor from Torzhok
*The Three Million Trial
*A Kiss From Mary Pickford
References
*Rollberg, Peter. 'Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema'.
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