
Fragment of an Empire
Oct 28 1929
•2h 50m
•Drama
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.
Cast
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Fyodor Nikitin
Filimonov

Lyudmila Semyonova
Filimonov's wife
Valeri Solovtsov
Filimonov's wife's new husband

Emil Gal
Passenger in the train
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