Fragment of an Empire

Director Frederick Ermlers 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 shellshocked 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