Word: filimonov
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Fragment of an Empire (Amkino). No picture has more intelligently shown the connection between the War and the new era in Russia than this story of how a shell-shocked soldier reclaims his life. Bearded Fedor Nikitin as Sergeant Filimonov loses his memory for four years and gets it back when he sees his wife's face at a train window. In a moment of anguish everything he had forgotten floods through his mind. He leaves the country station where he has been doing odd jobs, goes back to Moscow to take up life again. More than half the picture...
...than the sum of the minds that worked to make it. Whatever is seen through the camera has the novelty, strength and directness that the same images might have as they flowed in the thought-stream, rapid and silent, of some vigorous, original mind. Best shot: the War in Filimonov's tortured memory symbolized as a vision of himself as a Russian soldier, meeting and recognizing himself at an intersection of searchlights as a German soldier; then his own image again, as captain of a battery, receiving and executing the order that blows both other images into eternity...
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