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.

Release Date : Oct 28, 1929

Runtime : 1h 50m

Genre : Drama  

Companies : Sovkino

Countries : Soviet Union

Keywords : propaganda, politics