Beginning of an Unknown Era
(1967)
★ 5.8 IMDb · 16 votes
Year: 1967
Runtime: 73 мин
Country: Soviet Union
Director: Лариса Шепитько, Андрей Смирнов
Cast: Леонид Кулагин, Сергей Вольф, Николай Губенко, Георгий Бурков, Игорь Класс, Евгений Горюнов, Sergei Gorbatyuk, Иван Турченков
Plot
Two young directors adapted the short stories of two Russian authors whose works had been banned for decades, and so their film ended up in the censor’s vault as well – for twenty years. Both tales look back to the post-revolutionary era: 'Angel' (Olesha) speaks tragically of the brutality and destruction of the time, and 'The Homeland of Electricity' (Platonov) captures its haunting grotesquery.