Holiday of St. Jorgen (1930)

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Country: Soviet Union
Genres: Comedy
Release: 1930-08-25
Director: Yakov Protazanov
Writers: Harald Bergstedt , Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky , Oleg Leonidov , Yakov Protazanov
Language: Russian
Stars: Igor Ilyinsky , Anatoli Ktorov , Mariya Strelkova , Mikhail Klimov , Vladimir Uralskiy , Georgui Agnivtsev , Igor Arkadin , Aleksandr Geirot , Nikolai Gladkov , Nikolai Gladkov , Anatoliy Goryunov
Runtime: 83 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: Prazdnik svyatogo Yorgena , Das Fest des heiligen Jürgen (Germany) , Jörgensnatten (Sweden) , S:t Jörgensfesten (Sweden) , Pyhän Yrjön juhlat (Finland) , St. Jorgen's Day , Odpust na świętego Jorgena (Poland) , Праздник святого Йоргена , Das Fest des heiligen Jürgen , Prazdnik svjatogo Jorgena , O Agios Georgios (Greece) , St. Jorgen's Day , A Festa de São Jorge (Brazil) , Holiday of St. Jorgen (United Kingdom) , Holiday of St. Jorgen (United States of America) , Szent Jörgen ünnepe (Hungary)
Plot: Satire of religious charlatanry where priests, police, and stock market officials conspire to fleece pilgrims who've come to see relics of a supposed saint. A pair of con men hatch a scheme to pass off one of the duo as the saint reincarnated.
IMDB:tt0021268