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Filimonov, the protagonist, is a young man who lost his memory during WWI but regains it years later and suddenly sees the world of 1928, and the new Soviet society, through the eyes of Tsarist-era 1915. Nothing is as he remembers, including the fact that St. Petersburg is now Leningrad and modernised. Recalling too that he had a wife, he sets out to find her. The film is a winning mix of political parable, social satire, and complex psychology, and displays terrific location photography.
The screening will be accompanied by live music by the Rodrigo Amado Motion Trio.
Restoration by the San Francisco Silent Film Festival and the EYE Filmmuseum in partnership with Gosfilmofond of Russia.
The screening will be accompanied by live music by the Rodrigo Amado Motion Trio.
Restoration by the San Francisco Silent Film Festival and the EYE Filmmuseum in partnership with Gosfilmofond of Russia.
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Cast:
Fyodor Nikitin, Lyudmila Semyonova, Valeri Solovtsov -
Original Title:
Oblomok imperii -
Country:
Russia -
Year:
1929 - 109'
Director
Fridrikh Ermler
Fridrikh Markovich Ermler was a Soviet film director, actor, and screenwriter. He was a four-time recipient of the Stalin Prize. After studying pharmacology, he joined the Czarist army in 1917 and soon took part in the October revolution on the side of the Bolshevists.. His major films include: Fragment of an Empire (1929), a classic of Soviet silent films . Peasants (1935), also a classic, a grand-scale film on collectivization that mirrors peasant folkways with warmth and sympathy. The Great Turning Point (1946) extolled Stalin’s leadership of the Red Army. His final film, Before the Judgment of History (1965) examines the fall of the Russian Empire and the events of the Revolution.
