Beginning of an Unknown Era Cast and Crew

Beginning of an Unknown Era

Plot: 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

Release Date: Sunday, December 31 1967
57 years ago

Genres: War, Drama

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Cast

Leonid Kulagin. Leonid Kulagin was 27 in Beginning of an Unknown Era as 'комиссар Парфенов (новелла «Ангел»)'.

Birthday: Fri, Jun 07 1940

Sergei Volf. Sergei Volf was >> in Beginning of an Unknown Era as 'интеллигент (новелла «Ангел»)'.

Birthday: Unknown Birthday

Nikolai Gubenko. Nikolai Gubenko was 26 in Beginning of an Unknown Era as 'человек с коровой (новелла «Ангел»)'.

Birthday: Sun, Aug 17 1941 –
Died: Sun, Aug 16 2020

Georgi Burkov. Georgi Burkov was 34 in Beginning of an Unknown Era as 'студент (новелла «Ангел»)'.

Birthday: Wed, May 31 1933 –
Died: Thu, Jul 19 1990

Igor Klass. Igor Klass was 28 in Beginning of an Unknown Era as 'атаман Ангел (новелла «Ангел»)'.

Birthday: Sun, Nov 26 1939

Yevgeni Goryunov. Yevgeni Goryunov was >> in Beginning of an Unknown Era as 'Степан Жаренов (озв. Валерий Носик) («Родина электричества»)'.

Birthday: Unknown Birthday

Sergei Gorbatyuk. Sergei Gorbatyuk was >> in Beginning of an Unknown Era as 'Гриня (озв. Сергей Никоненко) («Родина электричества»)'.

Birthday: Unknown Birthday

Ivan Turchenkov. Ivan Turchenkov was 53 in Beginning of an Unknown Era as 'сотрудник губисполкома («Родина электричества»)'.

Birthday: Sat, May 30 1914 –
Died: Mon, Sep 27 1993

Crew

Larisa Shepitko. Larisa Shepitko was 29 in Beginning of an Unknown Era as 'Director, Screenplay'

Birthday: Thu, Jan 06 1938 –
Died: Mon, Jul 02 1979

Andrey Smirnov. Andrey Smirnov was 26 in Beginning of an Unknown Era as 'Director'

Birthday: Wed, Mar 12 1941

Genrikh Gabay. Genrikh Gabay was 44 in Beginning of an Unknown Era as 'Director'

Birthday: Sat, Oct 06 1923 –
Died: Thu, Nov 20 2003

Dmitri Korzhikhin. Dmitri Korzhikhin was 30 in Beginning of an Unknown Era as 'Director of Photography'

Birthday: Fri, Apr 30 1937 –
Died: Thu, Feb 21 1980

Pavel Lebeshev. Pavel Lebeshev was 27 in Beginning of an Unknown Era as 'Director of Photography'

Birthday: Thu, Feb 15 1940 –
Died: Sun, Feb 23 2003

Yury Olesha. Yury Olesha would have been no older than 61 in Beginning of an Unknown Era as 'Original Film Writer'

Birthday: Sun, Feb 19 1899 –
Died: Tue, May 10 1960

Andrei Platonov. Andrei Platonov would have been no older than 51 in Beginning of an Unknown Era as 'Original Film Writer'

Birthday: Wed, Aug 16 1899 –
Died: Fri, Jan 05 1951

Boris Yermolayev. Boris Yermolayev was >> in Beginning of an Unknown Era as 'Screenplay'

Birthday: Unknown Birthday

Mikhail Suslov. Mikhail Suslov was 28 in Beginning of an Unknown Era as 'Screenplay'

Birthday: Thu, Mar 23 1939 –
Died: Tue, Mar 05 2024

Ilya Suslov. Ilya Suslov was >> in Beginning of an Unknown Era as 'Screenplay'

Birthday: Unknown Birthday

Alfred Schnittke. Alfred Schnittke was 33 in Beginning of an Unknown Era as 'Original Music Composer'

Birthday: Sat, Nov 24 1934 –
Died: Mon, Aug 03 1998

Roman Ledenyov. Roman Ledenyov was 37 in Beginning of an Unknown Era as 'Original Music Composer'

Birthday: Thu, Dec 04 1930 –
Died: Thu, Aug 15 2019

Valentin Konovalov. Valentin Konovalov was 37 in Beginning of an Unknown Era as 'Art Direction'

Birthday: Sun, Apr 13 1930 –
Died: Mon, Jun 03 1996

Vladimir Korovin. Vladimir Korovin was >> in Beginning of an Unknown Era as 'Art Direction'

Birthday: Unknown Birthday

V. Kostrin. V. Kostrin was >> in Beginning of an Unknown Era as 'Art Direction'

Birthday: Unknown Birthday