St. Jorgen's Day

St. Jorgen's Day
Official film poster
Directed byYakov Protazanov
Written byHarald Bergstedt (novel)
Yakov Protazanov (screenplay)
Ilya Ilf, Yevgeni Petrov and Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky (cues)
CinematographyPyotr Yermolov
Music bySergei Boguslavsky
Release date
  • 1930 (1930)
Running time
83 minutes
CountrySoviet Union
LanguagesRussian
Part-talkie with
Russian intertitles

St. Jorgen's Day,[1][2] (Holiday of St. Jorgen, The Feast of St. Jorgen, Russian: Праздник Святого Йоргена, romanizedPrazdnik svyatogo Yorgena) 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).

  1. ^ Jay Leyda (1960). Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film. George Allen & Unwin. p. 270.
  2. ^ "The crudely antireligious Holiday of St. Iorgen (aka St. Jorgen's Day...)", Rollberg (q.v.), p. 548.