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Beginning of an Unknown Era

Dec 31, 1967 · 1h 13m
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Drama

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Two young directors adapted the short stories of two Russian authors whose works had been banned for decades, and so their film ended up in the censor’s vault as well – for twenty years. Both tales look back to the post-revolutionary era: 'Angel' (Olesha) speaks tragically of the brutality and destruction of the time, and 'The Homeland of Electricity' (Platonov) captures its haunting grotesquery.

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CAST

Leonid Kulagin
комиссар Парфенов (новелла «Ангел»)
Sergei Volf
интеллигент (новелла «Ангел»)
Nikolai Gubenko
человек с коровой (новелла «Ангел»)
Georgi Burkov
студент (новелла «Ангел»)
Igor Klass
атаман Ангел (новелла «Ангел»)
Yevgeni Goryunov
Степан Жаренов (озв. Валерий Носик) («Родина электричества»)
Sergei Gorbatyuk
Гриня (озв. Сергей Никоненко) («Родина электричества»)
Ivan Turchenkov
сотрудник губисполкома («Родина электричества»)
Directed by Andrey Smirnov

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Status
Released
Original language
RU
Budget
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Revenue
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Production
Experimental Film Studio
Country
SU

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