Fragment of an Empire (1929)

  • NR
  • 10/28/1929 (RU)
  • Drama
  • 1h 50m

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.

Fridrikh Ermler

Director, Writer

Ekaterina Vinogradskaya

Writer

Cast

Fyodor Nikitin's headshot

Fyodor Nikitin

Filimonov
Lyudmila Semyonova's headshot

Lyudmila Semyonova

Filimonov's wife
Valeri Solovtsov's headshot

Valeri Solovtsov

Filimonov's wife's new husband
Emil Gal's headshot

Emil Gal

Passenger in the train
Yakov Gudkin's headshot

Yakov Gudkin

The wounded soldier
Sergei Gerasimov's headshot

Sergei Gerasimov

Vyacheslav Viskovsky's headshot

Vyacheslav Viskovsky

Ursula Krug's headshot

Ursula Krug

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