Fragment of an Empire (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.
Director: Fridrikh Ermler
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Fyodor Nikitin as Filimonov |
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Lyudmila Semyonova as Filimonov's wife |
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Valeri Solovtsov as Filimonov's wife's new husband |
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Emil Gal as Passenger in the train |
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Yakov Gudkin as The wounded soldier |
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Sergei Gerasimov as |
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Vyacheslav Viskovsky as |
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Ursula Krug as |
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Aleksandr Melnikov as |
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Viktor Portnov as Drunkard |
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Boris Feodosyev as Officer |
| Directing | Fridrikh Ermler | Director |
| Writing | Fridrikh Ermler | Writer |
| Writing | Ekaterina Vinogradskaya | Writer |
| Camera | Yevgeni Shneider | Director of Photography |
| Art | Evgeny Eney | Production Design |
| Production | Adolf Minkin | Administration |
| Directing | Robert Mayman | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Viktor Portnov | Assistant Director |
