Beginning of an Unknown Era
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.
Top Billed Cast
Leonid Kulagin
комиссар Парфенов (новелла «Ангел»)
Sergei Volf
интеллигент (новелла «Ангел»)
Nikolai Gubenko
человек с коровой (новелла «Ангел»)
Georgi Burkov
студент (новелла «Ангел»)
Igor Klass
атаман Ангел (новелла «Ангел»)
Featured Crew
Roman Ledenyov
Music
Andrey Smirnov
Director
Larisa Shepitko
Director
Genrikh Gabay
Director
Boris Yermolayev
Screenplay
V. Kostrin
Art Direction
Mikhail Suslov
Screenplay
Alfred Schnittke
Music
Dmitri Korzhikhin
Director of Photography
Valentin Konovalov
Art Direction
Ilya Suslov
Screenplay
Pavel Lebeshev
Director of Photography
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