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Beginning of an Unknown Era (1967)
Directed by Larisa Shepitko, Andrey Smirnov, Genrikh Gabay
Overview
Two young directors adapted the short stories of two Russian authors whose works had been banned for decades, and so their film ended up in the censor’s vault as well – for twenty years. Both tales look back to the post-revolutionary era: ‘Angel’ speaks tragically of the brutality and destruction of the time, and ‘The Homeland of Electricity’ captures its haunting grotesquery.
Length 73 minutes
Actors
Leonid Kulagin | Sergei Volf | Nikolai Gubenko | Georgi Burkov | Igor Klass | Yevgeni Goryunov | Sergei Gorbatyuk | Иван Турченков