Beginning of an Unknown Era (1967)
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.
Directors:
Larisa Shepitko, Andrey Smirnov.
Writers:
Boris Yermolayev, Ilya Suslov, Mikhail Suslov, Larisa Shepitko.
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Leonid Kulagin as комиссар Парфенов (новелла «Ангел») |
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Sergei Volf as интеллигент (новелла «Ангел») |
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Nikolai Gubenko as человек с коровой (новелла «Ангел») |
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Georgi Burkov as студент (новелла «Ангел») |
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Igor Klass as атаман Ангел (новелла «Ангел») |
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Yevgeni Goryunov as Степан Жаренов (озв. Валерий Носик) («Родина электричества») |
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Sergei Gorbatyuk as Гриня (озв. Сергей Никоненко) («Родина электричества») |
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Ivan Turchenkov as сотрудник губисполкома («Родина электричества») |
| Directing | Larisa Shepitko | Director |
| Directing | Andrey Smirnov | Director |
| Writing | Boris Yermolayev | Screenplay |
| Writing | Ilya Suslov | Screenplay |
| Writing | Mikhail Suslov | Screenplay |
| Writing | Larisa Shepitko | Screenplay |
| Camera | Pavel Lebeshev | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Dmitri Korzhikhin | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Alfred Schnittke | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Roman Ledenyov | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | Andrei Platonov | Short Story |
| Writing | Yury Olesha | Short Story |
| Art | Valery Kostrin | Production Design |
| Art | Vladimir Korovin | Production Design |
| Sound | Roman Berz | Sound Director |
| Costume & Make-Up | G. Kazakova | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | L. Bufetova | Makeup Artist |
| Editing | Galina Baranova | Editor |
| Editing | Lyubov Butuzova | Editor |
| Writing | L. Gurevich | Script Editor |
| Directing | Yusup Daniyalov | Assistant Director |
| Camera | Vadim Grammatikov | Camera Operator |
| Production | Polina Borisova | Executive Producer |
| Art | Valentin Konovalov | Production Design |
| Sound | Yevgeni Kashkevich | Sound Director |
| Costume & Make-Up | N. Kibalchich | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | E. Parfenyuk | Makeup Artist |
| Editing | Valeriya Belova | Editor |
| Directing | Aleksandra Macheret | Assistant Director |
| Directing | T. Gavrilova | Assistant Director |
| Camera | Valery Shuvalov | Camera Operator |
| Production | Andrey Demchenko | Executive Producer |
