Fragment of an Empire
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.
- Year: 1929
- Country: Soviet Union
- Genre: Drama
- Studio: Sovkino
- Keyword: propaganda, politics
- Director: Fridrikh Ermler
- Cast: Fyodor Nikitin, Lyudmila Semyonova, Valeri Solovtsov, Emil Gal, Yakov Gudkin, Sergei Gerasimov
