The read
Critics rate it 27 points higher than audiences do.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7.3/10
Rotten Tomatoes100%
Critics rate it 27 points higher than audiences do.
25 audience votes
Key crew
- Fridrikh ErmlerDirector
- Fridrikh ErmlerWriter
- Ekaterina VinogradskayaWriter
Cast
- Fyodor NikitinFilimonov
- Lyudmila SemyonovaFilimonov's wife
- Valeri SolovtsovFilimonov's wife's new husband
- Emil GalPassenger in the train
- Yakov GudkinThe wounded soldier
- Sergei GerasimovCast
- Vyacheslav ViskovskyCast
- Ursula KrugCast
- Aleksandr MelnikovCast
- Viktor PortnovDrunkard
- Boris FeodosyevOfficer
Stills
Themes
propagandapolitics