Fragment of an Empire (1929)

5.7/10 • 110 min • Drama

Overview

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.

Cast

Fyodor Nikitin

Lyudmila Semyonova

Filimonov's wife

Valeri Solovtsov

Filimonov's wife's new husband

Emil Gal

Passenger in the train

Yakov Gudkin

The wounded soldier

Sergei Gerasimov

Vyacheslav Viskovsky

Ursula Krug

Aleksandr Melnikov

Viktor Portnov

Boris Feodosyev

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