Fragment of an Empire (1929)

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Released:
1929-10-28

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.

Director:
Fridrikh Ermler

Runtime:
1h 50min

Genre:
Drama

  • Cast:
  • Fyodor Nikitin
    as
    Filimonov
  • Lyudmila Semyonova
    as
    Filimonov's wife
  • Valeri Solovtsov
    as
    Filimonov's wife's new husband
  • Emil Gal
    as
    Passenger in the train
  • Yakov Gudkin
    as
    The wounded soldier