Beginning of an Unknown Era

Name: Beginning of an Unknown Era
Director: Andrey Smirnov
Genre: War, Drama
Released: 1967-12-31
Duration: 1 h 13 min
Rating: 5.6
Cast: Leonid Kulagin, Sergei Volf, Nikolai Gubenko, Georgi Burkov, Igor Klass

Directed by Andrey Smirnov

War

Drama

19671h 13m5.6

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.