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Fragment of an Empire (1929)

Name: Fragment of an Empire
Genre: Drama
Released: 1929
Duration: 110 min

Directed by Fridrikh Ermler

Drama · 1h 50m

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.