Fragment of an Empire.

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FilmPublisher number: 12602591 | KanopyPublisher: Flicker Alley, 1929Publisher: [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2021Description: 1 online resource (streaming video file) (109 minutes): digital, .flv file, soundContent type:

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Emil Gal, Sergey Gerasimov, Ursula Krug, Varvara Myasnikova, Yakov GudkinSummary: Fridrikh Ermler's last silent feature, FRAGMENT OF AN EMPIRE, tells the story of a Russian non-commissioned officer, Ivan Filimonov (Fyodor Nikitin), who was shell-shocked, thought to be dead in the First World War and in loss of memory. Filimonov regains his memory in 1928, ten years after the Russian Revolution. Determined to find his wife and get his job back, he goes home to Saint Petersburg only to find out that his wife has remarried and his former employer has been replaced by a factory committee. The Saint Petersburg that he used to know also does not exist anymore. Renamed Leningrad and deprived of its status as capital, the city with its monumental buildings and statues of Lenin is foreign to Filimonov as is everything else in this new world created by the 1917 Revolution. As time goes by, however, he learns to appreciate the new ways.

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Emil Gal, Sergey Gerasimov, Ursula Krug, Varvara Myasnikova, Yakov Gudkin

Originally produced by Flicker Alley in 1929.

Fridrikh Ermler's last silent feature, FRAGMENT OF AN EMPIRE, tells the story of a Russian non-commissioned officer, Ivan Filimonov (Fyodor Nikitin), who was shell-shocked, thought to be dead in the First World War and in loss of memory. Filimonov regains his memory in 1928, ten years after the Russian Revolution. Determined to find his wife and get his job back, he goes home to Saint Petersburg only to find out that his wife has remarried and his former employer has been replaced by a factory committee. The Saint Petersburg that he used to know also does not exist anymore. Renamed Leningrad and deprived of its status as capital, the city with its monumental buildings and statues of Lenin is foreign to Filimonov as is everything else in this new world created by the 1917 Revolution. As time goes by, however, he learns to appreciate the new ways.

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