Fragment of an Empire (Обломок империи)

FRAGMENT OF AN EMPIRE

Theme: Katerina Vinogradskaia

Screenplay: Katerina Vinogradskaia and Fridrikh Ermler

Photography: Yevgenii Schneider Set Design: Yevgenii Yenei

Assistants: Robert Maiman, Viktor Portnov Administrator: Adolf Minkin

Director: Fridrikh Ermler

We were retreating.

Oh my god... So many boots.

Outpost No. 2

Pull off the boots. They are being wasted.

Drink... Drink.

Outpost No. 2

These are no longer dangerous. Bury them. Battalion Commander 2.

Field Headquarters N Battalion in the name of St. George.

Unauthorized persons prohibited.

Drink...

Well?!

And you will die by yourself.

He works for me, your excellency. He has lost his mind...

Lost his memory. A shell-shocked soldier...

Outpost No. 2

Tuesdays are special days at the railway station. An express train passes through.

He is the only one who knows no time, who remembers no place.

He knows nothing about himself.

EPOCH

EPOCH

EPOCH

I know who I am... I am non-commissioned officer Filimonov! (Fiodor Nikitin)

My wife... my wife.

Where are my boots?

To St. Petersburg, his hometown.

...long live the worldwide Socialist Revolution!

Where is Petersburg?

Where am I?

Where can I find my wife?

Where shall I go?

Where?

Where?

WHERE?

WHERE?

WHERE?

To the master.

At your service, master!

Well, speak!

The factory isn't mine now. Go to Fabcom. (the factory committee)

I worked for you in 1910, 1911, and up until 1914.

They have ruined me... robbed me. I have no factory.

Don't, don't. Now we are all equal...

Fabcom of the Krasnoe Znamia factory (formerly Kneipfer)...

...long live the worldwide Socialist Revolution!

REGISTRATION OFFICE

Reference of the Leningrad Central Address Bureau:

Filimonova Natalia Kirilovna wife of a non-commissioned officer is not registered.

...is not registered.

Her husband, a cultural worker.

CANTEEN

What is a "wife"?

By keeping our "housewife" in the kitchen and tormenting her with household tasks...

we lose our wife as a comrade.

But is it so difficult to find a comrade in her?

Is it so difficult to find your wife? It's easy!

That is not true! I've been looking for my wife for three days and I can't find her...

I am looking for Mr. Fabcom...

How did you find me?

At your service, Mr. Fabcom.

Well, tell me...

Typhus