Film
Fragment of an Empire
- Director
- Fridrikh Ermler
- Certificate
- PG
- Running Time
- 109 mins
A shell-shocked World War I soldier regains his memory after ten years and returns home to St. Petersburg, finding peace and justice but also heart-wrenching change.
Fridrikh Ermler‘s last silent feature has been described as “the most important film in Soviet Cinema”) for its exploration of the revolution as seen by a soldier stuck in a Tsarist past. But Fragment of an Empire has usually been shown only in truncated form. South West Silents are screening the brand new restoration with live piano accompaniment by John Sweeney.
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