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, Genrikh Gabay.
Writers:
Ilya Suslov, Mikhail Suslov, Boris Yermolayev, 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 |
| Directing | Genrikh Gabay | Director |
| Writing | Ilya Suslov | Screenplay |
| Camera | Dmitri Korzhikhin | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Mikhail Suslov | Screenplay |
| Camera | Pavel Lebeshev | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Boris Yermolayev | Screenplay |
| Art | Valentin Konovalov | Art Direction |
| Writing | Larisa Shepitko | Screenplay |
| Art | Vladimir Korovin | Art Direction |
| Sound | Alfred Schnittke | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Roman Ledenyov | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | Yury Olesha | Story |
| Writing | Andrei Platonov | Story |
| Writing | Andrei Platonov | Short Story |
| Writing | Yury Olesha | Short Story |
| Art | Valery Kostrin | Production Design |
