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The Railway

08/01/2007

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1hr 44min

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Fantasy

,Drama

STORY

Mischa, a mute boy, sets out on a surrealistic journey together with his father and two men. Their means of transportation is an old Soviet locomotive, loaded with stolen coal. The travellers intend to sell off the loot on their way through the borderless steppes of inner Russia. As a parallel to the main plot, sequences of a mysterious travelling circus keep reappearing in a very suggestive way. Many of the odd artists at the circus are people that the four protagonists encounter in the wilderness along the overgrown railway. All through the movie there is a sensation of magic crossed with pure realism, stressed by the crackling communistic infrastructure and a twisted sense of humor. The border between reality and fantasy is very subtle here. The Railway is a story about strong family ties, but also an ambitious interpretation of the clash between the Russia of old and new. One could call it the rebirth of a long forgotten genre: the Russian wonder story.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Sergey Belyaev
  • Viktor Terelya
  • Olga Degtyaryova
  • Pyotr Zaychenko
  • Tatyana Orlova

    Director

  • Alexey Fedorchenko

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • 29th February Film Company

    Production Countries

  • Russia

LANGUAGES

  • Russian

Cast

Sergey Belyaev

Papa

Viktor Terelya

Olga Degtyaryova

Pyotr Zaychenko

Tatyana Orlova

Sergey Yarmolyuk

Larysa Domaskina

Sergey Lobanov

Andrii Titov

Viktor Matizen

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