Beginning of an Unknown Era

Beginning of an Unknown Era

2.7 |
1h 13min

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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.
Beginning of an Unknown Era

Story

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.

Directors

Larisa Shepitko, Andrey Smirnov, Genrikh Gabay, Larisa Shepitko,

Writers

Ilya Suslov, Boris Yermolayev, Yury Olesha, Andrei Platonov,

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