A mother released from a prison camp in Russia finds her son, but realises that reconciliation is impossible.

Described by historian Paul Rotha as “the epitome of the Soviet propaganda film, realized with extraordinary skill of technical achievement”, Fragment of an Empire was the first important film effort…

The first film of a four-part adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s 1869 novel. In St. Petersburg of 1805, Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a rich nobleman, is introduced to high…