After serving alongside his fellow Russians in the first World War, Vsevolod Pudovkin was radically altered by a life-changing screening of D.W. Griffith’s Intolerance, inspiring the young man to shift away from his studies in chemistry in order to pursue the cinematic arts.
Pudovkin embarked on his narrative feature debut in 1926 with Mother, regarded by many as a masterpiece of the Russian silent era, and a showcase for Pudovkin’s emotive approach to editing. Pudovkin followed Mother’s tale of proletariat uprising with the Bolshevik-themed The End of St. Petersburg and the Mongolia-set Storm over Asia in 1927 and 1928 respectively, dazzling the world with a trio of masterful films centered around this tumultuous and revolutionary period in Russian history.
Combining Mother and The End of St. Petersburg with a brand-new remaster from Lobster Films of Storm over Asia, Flicker Alley is proud to offer The Bolshevik Trilogy - Three Films by Vsevolod Pudovkin in a 2-disc Blu-ray collection for cinephiles, and lovers of epic, innovative filmmaking alike.
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Mother
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The End of St. Petersberg
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- Chess Fever (1925) - Pudovkin’s directorial debut, this ingenious satire of the Moscow chess craze combines staged scenes with documentary footage, and features a number of cameos from the worlds of cinema and chess.
- A Revolution in Five Moves - A visual essay showcasing the five edits that inspired the Bolshevik revolution.
- Five Principles of Editing - A comparison of Pudovkin’s “Five Principles of Editing”
- Amatuer Images of St. Petersburg (1930)
- Notebooks of a Tourist Presents: St. Petersburg (c.1920)
- Audio Commentary: Storm over Asia (1928) - Featuring film historian and scholar, Jan-Christopher Horak
- Audio Commentary: Mother (1926) - Featuring Russian film historian and curator Peter Bagrov
- Souvenir Booklet - Featuring a new essay by film author and historian Amy Sargeant