Fragment of an Empire
About Fragment of an Empire
Filimonov, played by Fyodor Nikitin, spends ten years after the Great War unable to remember who he is. A woman seen through a train window brings the memory back. He goes to St. Petersburg and finds the city is now Leningrad.
Cast & crew
More about Fragment of an Empire
Fridrikh Ermler directed and wrote his last silent feature, and his last of four films with Nikitin. The Russian title is Обломок империи. Wikidata also lists Lenfilm beside Sovkino. Released October 28, 1929.
Themes
Look
Yevgeni Shneider photographed the film.
Preservation
A Commons transfer of the silent feature is online.
Notes
- Lyudmila Semyonova, Valeri Solovtsov, Emil Gal, Yakov Gudkin, and Sergei Gerasimov are billed.
Scenes
- The woman in the train window starts the memory.
- Filimonov walks into a city that no longer uses its old name.
