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' speaks tragically of the brutality and destruction of the time, and 'The Homeland of Electricity' captures its haunting grotesquery.
Unfortunately the movie Beginning of an Unknown Era is not yet available on HBO Max.
Sound | Roman Ledenyov | Music |
Directing | Larisa Shepitko | Director |
Directing | Andrey Smirnov | Director |
Directing | Genrikh Gabay | Director |
Writing | Boris Yermolayev | Screenplay |
Writing | Ilya Suslov | Screenplay |
Writing | Mikhail Suslov | Screenplay |
Writing | Larisa Shepitko | Screenplay |
Camera | Pavel Lebeshev | Director of Photography |
Camera | Dmitri Korzhikhin | Director of Photography |
Sound | Alfred Schnittke | Music |
Art | Vladimir Korovin | Art Direction |
Art | Valentin Konovalov | Art Direction |
Art | V. Kostrin | Art Direction |