Movie: Fragment of an Empire

Top 9 Billed Cast

Fyodor Nikitin
Фёдор Никитин

Filimonov

Lyudmila Semyonova
Lyudmila Semyonova

Filimonov's wife

Valeri Solovtsov
Valeri Solovtsov

Filimonov's wife's new husband

Emil Gal
Emil Gal

Passenger in the train

Yakov Gudkin
Yakov Gudkin

The wounded soldier

Sergei Gerasimov
Сергей Герасимов

Vyacheslav Viskovsky
Vyacheslav Viskovsky

Ursula Krug
Ursula Krug

Aleksandr Melnikov
Александр Мельников

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    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.

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    1929-10-28

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    5.8

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