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St. Jorgen's Day is a russe film of genre Comedy directed by Yakov Protazanov with Igor Ilinski
St. Jorgen's Day (1930)
Праздник святого Йоргена
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Add to a movie listPrazdnik svyatogo Yorgena (St. Jorgen's Day, Holiday of St. Jorgen, The Feast of St. Jorgen, Russian: Праздник Святого Йоргена) 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).
Synopsis
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.Actors
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