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Fragment of an Empire

Fragment of an Empire (1929)

1h 50m | PG-13

⭐ 5.565 / 10

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

Studio: Sovkino

Genre: Drama

Video: 720p

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Cast

Fyodor Nikitin

Fyodor Nikitin

as Filimonov

Lyudmila Semyonova

Lyudmila Semyonova

as Filimonov's wife

Valeri Solovtsov

Valeri Solovtsov

as Filimonov's wife's new husband

Emil Gal

Emil Gal

as Passenger in the train

Yakov Gudkin

Yakov Gudkin

as The wounded soldier

Sergei Gerasimov

Sergei Gerasimov

as