The End of St. Petersburg

In 1913, a village lad (Ivan Chuvelyov) reaches St. Petersburg looking for work and finds a city of factories, unemployed men and police. Vsevolod Pudovkin follows him through the war years, when the Tsar's regime sends him to the front and the manufacturer Lebedev (Vladimir Obolenskiy) profits. Made for the tenth anniversary of the October Revolution, the film argues that a city belongs to those who build it.