Fragment of an Empire (1929)
Overview
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
Fyodor Nikitin
Filimonov
Lyudmila Semyonova
Filimonov's wife
Valeri Solovtsov
Filimonov's wife's new husband
Emil Gal
Passenger in the train
Yakov Gudkin
The wounded soldier
Sergei Gerasimov
Vyacheslav Viskovsky
Ursula Krug
Aleksandr Melnikov
Viktor Portnov
Drunkard
Boris Feodosyev
Officer
