Fragment of an Empire

Fragment of an Empire

110 mins | Drama | Oct. 28, 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.

Fragment of an Empire

110 mins | Drama | Oct. 28, 1929

Fragment of an Empire
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.
IMDb rating 7.3
Producers Sovkino
Original title Обломок империи
Directors Fridrikh Ermler
Writers Ekaterina Vinogradskaya, Fridrikh Ermler

Cast

Fyodor Nikitin

as Filimonov

Lyudmila Semyonova

as Filimonov's wife

Valeri Solovtsov

as Filimonov's wife's new husband

Emil Gal

as Passenger in the train

Yakov Gudkin

as The wounded soldier