Beginning of an Unknown Era

Directed by Andrey Smirnov and Larisa Shepitko

With Leonid Kulagin, Sergei Volf, Nikolai Gubenko, Georgi Burkov and 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.