Empire (1986 film)

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Empire
A shot from the film
Directed by	Alexander Sokurov
Written by	Alexander Sokurov
Starring	Alla Osipenko, Ilya Rivin
Music by	Giuseppe Verdi
Editing by	L. Semenova, L. Volkova, N. Alexandrovna
Distributed by	Lenfilm
Release date(s)	1986
Running time	35 minutes
Country	USSR
Language	Russian

Empire (Russian: Ампир) is a feature film by Alexander Sokurov, released in 1986.

[edit] 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.