St. Jorgen's Day

The account is set in a town of pilgrimage. The relics of a saint are kept there. A great ceremony is held every year. People come to it from all directions. The priests take their share of the business. Men from the stock exchange and the police are inside the arrangement too. Everyone’s reckoning depends on the money the pilgrims bring. Around this time two swindlers turn up. The pair put together a plan. One of them will appear as the risen saint. If the crowd believes it the thing will work. But the order of the town does not want that. Igor Ilyinsky and Anatoli Ktorov take the leads in Yakov Protazanov’s Soviet film of 1930.