Beginning of an Unknown Era

Directing: Лариса Шепитько, Андрей Смирнов, Борис Ермолаев, Илья Суслов, Mikhail Suslov, Лариса Шепитько

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.