Film
Beginning of an Unknown Era
1967Directed by Andrey Smirnov, Larisa Shepitko
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- Released
- Runtime
- 1h 13m
About Beginning of an Unknown Era
- War
- Drama
Synopsis
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
- Andrey Smirnov
- Larisa Shepitko
- Writers
- Boris Yermolayev
- Mikhail Suslov
- Ilya Suslov
- Larisa Shepitko
- Andrey Platonov
- Yury Olesha
- Original title
- Начало неведомого века
