Beginning of an Unknown Era

Overview

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

December 31, 1967

Original language

Russian

Spoken languages

Russian

Countries

Soviet Union

Production

Experimental Film Studio

Cast

Leonid Kulagin,Sergei Volf,Nikolai Gubenko,Georgi Burkov,Igor Klass,Yevgeni Goryunov,Sergei Gorbatyuk,Ivan Turchenkov

Director

Andrey Smirnov,Larisa Shepitko

Writer

Boris Yermolayev,Mikhail Suslov,Ilya Suslov,Larisa Shepitko,Andrey Platonov,Yury Olesha,Leonid Gurevich

Producer

Polina Borisova,Andrey Demchenko

Cinematography

Dmitri Korzhikhin,Pavel Lebeshev

Music

Alfred Schnittke,Roman Ledenyov

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0062026