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Fragment of an Empire

Oct 28, 1929 · 1h 50m
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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.

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CAST

Fyodor Nikitin
Filimonov
Lyudmila Semyonova
Filimonov's wife
Valeri Solovtsov
Filimonov's wife's new husband
Emil Gal
Passenger in the train
Yakov Gudkin
The wounded soldier
Sergei Gerasimov
Vyacheslav Viskovsky
Ursula Krug
Directed by Fridrikh Ermler

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Status
Released
Original language
RU
Budget
—
Revenue
—
Production
Sovkino
Country
SU

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