Beginning of an Unknown Era (1967)
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.
- Released
- 1967-12-31
- Genres
- War, Drama
- Runtime
- 73 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Andrey Smirnov, Larisa Shepitko, Boris Yermolayev, Mikhail Suslov
- TMDB rating
- 5.8/10 from 16 votes
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»)
- Yevgeni Goryunov as Степан Жаренов (озв. Валерий Носик) («Родина электричества»)
- Sergei Gorbatyuk as Гриня (озв. Сергей Никоненко) («Родина электричества»)
- Ivan Turchenkov as сотрудник губисполкома («Родина электричества»)