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Red May presents FRAGMENT OF AN EMPIRE
1929
Director
Fridrikh Ermler
Starring
Fyodor Nikitin
Lyudmila Semyonova
Yakov Gudkin
Sergei Gerasimov
Runtime
110 minutes
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RED MAY presents Soviet Rip Van Winkle story.
A shell-shocked soldier loses his memory during the Russian Civil War. When he regains it in 1928, he travels to his hometown, St Petersburg. It’s now renamed Leningrad, marked by new architecture, bustling modernity, and a statue of Vladimir Lenin standing prominently in the town square. Disoriented, seeking to reconnect with his former life, he visits his old workplace, now a workers’ factory committee. To his surprise, the factory is managed by none other than the Red Army soldier he once saved during the war. Slowly he begins to understand the changes around him and tries to adjust to a society where the workers and peasants are now in charge. A classic Soviet silent film in a new restoration.
"The most important film in Soviet silent cinema." - Denise J. Youngblood
RED MAY is a month-long spree of red arts, red theory, and red politics based in Seattle, Washington. We gather in bookstores, movie theaters, bars, parks, cafes, alleys, and auditoriums to share in discussion and plot ways forward toward a world in common: a world beyond capitalism.
A shell-shocked soldier loses his memory during the Russian Civil War. When he regains it in 1928, he travels to his hometown, St Petersburg. It’s now renamed Leningrad, marked by new architecture, bustling modernity, and a statue of Vladimir Lenin standing prominently in the town square. Disoriented, seeking to reconnect with his former life, he visits his old workplace, now a workers’ factory committee. To his surprise, the factory is managed by none other than the Red Army soldier he once saved during the war. Slowly he begins to understand the changes around him and tries to adjust to a society where the workers and peasants are now in charge. A classic Soviet silent film in a new restoration.
"The most important film in Soviet silent cinema." - Denise J. Youngblood
RED MAY is a month-long spree of red arts, red theory, and red politics based in Seattle, Washington. We gather in bookstores, movie theaters, bars, parks, cafes, alleys, and auditoriums to share in discussion and plot ways forward toward a world in common: a world beyond capitalism.