Beginning of an Unknown Era

1h 13m

5.4

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' (Olesha) speaks tragically of the brutality and destruction of the time, and 'The Homeland of Electricity' (Platonov) captures its haunting grotesquery.

Cast

комиссар Парфенов (новелла «Ангел»)

интеллигент (новелла «Ангел»)

Nikolai Gubenko

человек с коровой (новелла «Ангел»)

студент (новелла «Ангел»)

атаман Ангел (новелла «Ангел»)

Yevgeni Goryunov

Степан Жаренов (озв. Валерий Носик) («Родина электричества»)

Sergei Gorbatyuk

Гриня (озв. Сергей Никоненко) («Родина электричества»)

Ivan Turchenkov

сотрудник губисполкома («Родина электричества»)

Crew

Larisa Shepitko

Director, Screenplay

Boris Yermolayev

Andrei Platonov

Director of Photography

Dmitri Korzhikhin

Director of Photography

Alfred Schnittke

Original Music Composer

Original Music Composer

Vladimir Korovin

Valentin Konovalov