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
The 20th Century sponsored by Union Carbide ("The Discovery Company"), was renamed "The 21st Century". The show's focus changed to the future and to what humankind could look forward to. "The 21st Century" was cancelled after three seasons (its final broadcast was on 4 January 1970). The reason given was that the writers had run out of things to talk about. However, CBS may have wished to replace it with a more commercially successful program. The 20th Century The Twentieth Century was a documentary television program sponsored by the Prudential Insurance Company that ran on the CBS network from 20 October 1957 until