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Restoration of Oblomok imperii - 3. Cleaning

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Channel: Eye Filmmuseum · 2018 · Film & Animation

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This film is from the Eye Filmmuseum collection. Many films in this collection contain outdated information or offensive language/images. While this is problematic, we do not wish to erase these films from (film) history. As a film museum, we show films as much as possible in their original form.   

 Director: Fridrikh Ermler | Production Country: Soviet Union | Year: 1929 | Production Company: Sovkino (USSR) | FLM47986 | Film from the collection of EYE (Amsterdam) - https://www.eyefilm.nl/en 

Cast: Fiodor Nikitin, Yakov Gudkin, Liudmila Semionova, and Valerii Solovtsov.

Based primarily on a 35mm print held at the EYE Filmmuseum (Filmliga Collection) in Amsterdam, this restoration of Fragment of an Empire is supplemented with a 35mm nitrate print from the Swiss Cinémathèque, which provided the original Russian intertitles for Acts 2–6 as well as a small number of shots missing from the primary source. 

Titles absent from the Swiss print have been reproduced based on Russian censor records and are identified with the notation “2018” in the lower right corner. 

A partnership between EYE Filmmuseum, Gosfilmofond of Russia, and the San Francisco Silent Film Festival, this restoration would not have possible without the perseverance and meticulous scholarship of archivist Peter Bagrov.  

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