St. Jorgen's Day

St. Jorgen's Day, (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 (Anatoly 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 Anatoly Ktorov as Michael Korkis Mikhail Klimov as adjunct of the St. Jorgen church Ivan Arkadin as treasurer of St. Jorgen Church Mariya Strelkova as Oleandra Vladimir Uralsky as conductor of the railway Anatoly Goryunov as relic seller