Fragment of an Empire

Fragment of an Empire 1929 Directed by Fridrikh Ermler Обломок империи

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.

Country Soviet Union

Production Country Soviet Union

Language Russian

Spoken Language No Language

Gnere Drama

Production Company Sovkino

Release Date 28 October 1929

110 mins