Fragment of an Empire

    Fragment of an Empire
    1929

    Synopsis

    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 NikitinFilimonov
    • Lyudmila SemyonovaFilimonov's wife
    • Valeri SolovtsovFilimonov's wife's new husband
    • Emil GalPassenger in the train
    • Yakov GudkinThe wounded soldier
    • Sergei Gerasimov
    • Vyacheslav Viskovsky
    • Ursula Krug
    • Aleksandr Melnikov

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