Vanished Empire
This story take place in Moscow during the 1970s and unfolds around the love triangle between two young men and a girl who study at the same university. They argue, make up, and face their first disappointments and victories. While busy with personal lives and loves, they miss foreseeing that the country in which they were born and live will soon disappear from the map.
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Cast
25 people
Aleksandr Lyapin
Sergei Narbekov
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Lidiya Milyuzina
Lyuda Beletskaya
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Egor Baranovsky
Stepan Molodtsov
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Ivan Kupreyenko
Kostya Denisov
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Vladimir Ilin
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Tatyana Yakovenko
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Armen Dzhigarkhanyan
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Velimir Rusakov
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Vasiliy Shakhnazarov
Olga Tumaykina
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Olga Kovalyova
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Karen Shakhnazarov Director · Evgeniy Nikishov Writer Sergey Rokotov Writer
Worldwide gross $1.5M · United States release November 11, 2008 · Produced in Russia
Box office
Worldwide gross
$1,511,572
Production
Vox Video
Production
Mosfilm
Production · Studio
Russia
Produced in
Languages
Original title
Исчезнувшая империя
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
Russian
Release dates
Russia · February 14, 2008
Theatrical
United States · November 11, 2008
Theatrical
United States
October 19, 2008 · Premiere · Chicago International Film Festival
Brazil
March 5, 2018 · TV · TV Brasil
France
January 8, 2014 · Theatrical · redacted version
January 8, 2022 · Digital · Prime Video
Russia
February 28, 2013 · Theatrical · redacted version
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