Fragment of an Empire

1929 · Directed by Fridrikh Ermler · 110 min · drama film, silent film

★ 5.7/10 · 25 ratings on TMDB

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.