Society and culture in Saint Petersburg worldwide, but were not filmed in the city. First film studios were founded in St. Petersburg in the first decade of the 20th century, and since the 1920s Lenfilm has been the largest film studio based in St. Petersburg. Earliest films that became known internationally were often based on famous literary works set in St. Petersburg, such as Fyodor Dostoevsky's "The Idiot" and a few versions of Anna Karenina (a Russian and a French film, each of 1911). The first foreign feature movie filmed entirely in St. Petersburg was the 1997 production of Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina", starring Sophie Marceau and
Pirates of the 20th Century ship, manage to escape and must fight the pirates for survival. Pirates of the 20th Century Pirates of the 20th Century (, translit. "Piraty XX veka") is a 1980 Soviet action/adventure film about modern piracy. The film was directed by Boris Durov, the story was written by Boris Durov and Stanislav Govorukhin. The film was the leader of Soviet distribution in 1980 and had 87.6 million viewers. The film begins with a convoy of military vehicles rolling into a seaport located somewhere in Middle East in the bank of Indian or Pacific Ocean and stopping near the pier where the