Fragment of an Empire (1929)

• 74%
• 1929
• Drama
• Fridrikh Ermler
• Fyodor Nikitin
• Lyudmila Semyonova
• Valeri Solovtsov

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.