Empire (1986 film)

Infobox Film
name = Empire


caption = A shot from the film
director = Alexander Sokurov
producer =
writer = Alexander Sokurov
starring = Alla Osipenko, Ilya Rivin
music = Giuseppe Verdi
cinematography =
editing = L. Semenova, L. Volkova, N. Alexandrovna
distributor = Lenfilm
released = 1986
runtime = 35 minutes
country = USSR
language = Russian
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Empire (Russian: Ампир) is a feature film by Alexander Sokurov, released in 1986.

Background

Empire (1986 film) was inspired by Lucille Fletcher's radio drama "Sorry, Wrong Number". For the film, Sokurov, as often, selected a single motif from the work of inspiration - in this case it was the sickness of a woman.

It was produced as the graduation work of S. Sidorov from the VGIK. At that time Sokurov was not allowed to work on his own films, and saw this as an opportunity to continue work in the field.

ources

* [http://sokurov.spb.ru/island_ru/feature_films/ampir/mnp_amp.html Sokurov's website]