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Golden Mountains
Golden Mountains
Directed by	Sergei Yutkevich
Written by	Lev Arnshtam; Aleksei Chapygin; Andrei Mikhailovsky; Vladimir Nedobrovo; Sergei Yutkevich
Starring	Boris Poslavsky
Cinematography	Iosif Martov; Vladimir Rapoport
Music by	Dmitri Shostakovich
Production; company	Soyuzkino
Release date	6 November 1931;
Running time	3,585 meters (95 minutes)
Country	Soviet Union
Languages	Silent film; Russian intertitles

Golden Mountains (Russian: Златые горы, romanized: Zlatye gory) is a 1931 Soviet silent drama film directed by Sergei Yutkevich. A re-edited sound version of the film was released in 1936.^[1]^[2]

Plot

The film is set in the year 1914. Having received a large military order, the administration of the St. Petersburg metallurgical plant "Krutilov and Son" is attracting new workers. However, a strike is looming at the plant under the influence of a powerful strike movement of the Baku oil workers.

An engineer, who is the son of the factory owner, tries to bribe the former farmer Pyotr and make him the leader of the newly arrived workers. Pyotr takes part in the assassination of the Bolshevik activist-worker Vasili. As a result, the hero is forced to bring home the wounded Bolshevik. Once in the environment of striking workers, Pyotr enters into their ranks and engages in class struggle.