Fragment of an Empire

(1929)

★ 5.7 IMDb · 25 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1929

Runtime: 80 мин

Country: Soviet Union

Director: Фридрих Эрмлер

Cast: Фёдор Никитин, Людмила Семёнова, Валерий Соловцов, Эмиль Галь, Яков Гудкин, Сергей Герасимов, Vyacheslav Viskovsky, Урсула Круг, Александр Мельников, Виктор Портнов

Plot

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.