Fragment of an Empire (1929)

10/28/1929 (SU) • 1h 50m

Drama

Overview

Director Frederick Ermler’s last silent feature and the last of four collaborations with actor Fiodor Nikitin. Nikitin plays an officer who spends a decade after the Great War as a shell-shocked amnesiac, until a glimpse of a woman through a train window sparks the return of his memory. He makes his way back to St. Petersburg, now Leningrad, a man out of time who struggles to make sense of the new society brought about by the revolution.

Top Billed Cast

Lyudmila Semyonova

Filimonov's wife

Valeri Solovtsov

Filimonov's wife's new husband

Emil Gal

Passenger in the train

Yakov Gudkin

The wounded soldier


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Status

Released

Original Language

No Language

Budget

-

Revenue

-

Keywords

propaganda

politics

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