MOVIE

Beginning of an Unknown Era

Name: Beginning of an Unknown Era
Director: Larisa Shepitko
Genre: War, Drama
Released: 1967-12-31
Cast: Leonid Kulagin, Sergei Volf, Nikolai Gubenko, Georgi Burkov, Igor Klass

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.

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… + more