Film
Fragment of an Empire
SU- Director
- Fridrikh Ermler
- Year
- 1929
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.
Top cast
Directed by
Fridrikh Ermler
Written by
Fridrikh Ermler, Ekaterina Vinogradskaya
