Beginning of an Unknown Era
Начало неведомого века
Release: 1967-12-31
·Runtime: 73m
·★ 5.4
War
Drama
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.
Production Countries
Soviet Union
Production Companies
Experimental Film Studio
Cast
Leonid Kulagin
as комиссар Парфенов (новелла «Ангел»)
Sergei Volf
as интеллигент (новелла «Ангел»)
Nikolai Gubenko
as человек с коровой (новелла «Ангел»)
Georgi Burkov
as студент (новелла «Ангел»)
Igor Klass
as атаман Ангел (новелла «Ангел»)
Ivan Turchenkov
as сотрудник губисполкома («Родина электричества»)
Crew
Larisa Shepitko
Director
Andrey Smirnov
Director
Genrikh Gabay
Director
Mikhail Suslov
Screenplay
Pavel Lebeshev
Director of Photography
Valentin Konovalov
Art Direction
Larisa Shepitko
Screenplay
Alfred Schnittke
Original Music Composer
Roman Ledenyov
Original Music Composer
Yury Olesha
Story
Andrei Platonov
Story