Beginning of an Unknown Era
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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.
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Leonid Kulagin
комиссар Парфенов (новелла «Ангел»)
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Sergei Volf
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Nikolai Gubenko
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Igor Klass
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Yevgeni Goryunov
Степан Жаренов (озв. Валерий Носик) («Родина электричества»)
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Ivan Turchenkov
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Larisa Shepitko Director · Andrey Smirnov Director Mikhail Suslov Screenplay
Director Screenplay
Larisa Shepitko
Director
Andrey Smirnov
Screenplay
Mikhail Suslov
Screenplay
Boris Yermolayev
Author
Yury Olesha
Author
Andrey Platonov
Composer
Roman Ledenyov
Composer
Alfred Schnittke
Cinematographer
Pavel Lebeshev
Cinematographer
Dmitri Korzhikhin
Editor
Valeriya Belova
Editor
Galina Baranova
Editor
Lyubov Butuzova
Production designer
Valery Kostrin
Production designer
Vladimir Korovin
Production designer
Valentin Konovalov
Costume designer
N. Kibalchich
Costume designer
G. Kazakova
First release December 31, 1967 · Produced in Russia, Russia · Production Experimental Film Studio, Moscow
Production
Experimental Film Studio
Production
Experimental Film Studio, Moscow
Production
Russia · Russia
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Original title
Начало неведомого века
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
Russian
Release dates
Russia · December 31, 1967
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No release date listed for United States.
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