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Fragment of an Empire (1929) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1929 · 110 mins
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- Directed by
- Fridrikh Ermler
- Starring
- Aleksandr Melnikov, Sergei Gerasimov, Fyodor Nikitin, Vyacheslav Viskovsky, Lyudmila Semyonova, Yakov Gudkin
Ermler’s final silent film and the last of his four collaborations with Fiodor Nikitin, follows an officer rendered shell‑shocked and amnesiac by the Great War. A fleeting glimpse of a woman in a train window revives his memory, prompting his return to St. Petersburg—now Leningrad—where he confronts a society reshaped by the revolution.
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