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The film was Fridrikh Ermler's last silent feature and last of four productively contentious collaborations with the method actor Fiodor Nikitin. To prepare for his part as Filimonov, a soldier suffering from total amnesia due to shell shock from the Great War, Nikitin apparently disguised himself as a doctor's assistant in the Forel Psychiatric Clinic to study actual amnesia patients. Meanwhile, Ermler creates a profoundly realistic and moving portrait...