Fragment of an Empire

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.

Country:

Soviet Union

Genre:

Drama

Duration:

110 minutes

Year:

1929

Director:

Fridrikh Ermler

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Company:

Sovkino

Cast:

Filimonov

Filimonov's wife

Filimonov's wife's new husband

Passenger in the train

The wounded soldier

Crew:

Director

Writer

Cinematography

Writer