Fragment of an Empire

Oct 28, 1929

1h 50m

★ 5.7

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.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Sovkino

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Cast

Filimonov

Fyodor Nikitin

Filimonov's wife

Lyudmila Semyonova

Filimonov's wife's new husband

Valeri Solovtsov

Passenger in the train

Emil Gal

The wounded soldier

Yakov Gudkin

Sergei Gerasimov

Vyacheslav Viskovsky

Ursula Krug

Aleksandr Melnikov

Drunkard

Viktor Portnov

Officer

Boris Feodosyev

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