Fragment of an Empire

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.

• Fridrikh ErmlerWriter
• Fridrikh ErmlerDirector
• Ekaterina VinogradskayaWriter

• 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