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The Railway

Overview

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.

RATING

4.30

DIRECTOR

Aleksey Fedorchenko

COUNTRIE

Russia

RELEASE DATE

2007

TIME

1h 44m

GENRES

Fantasy

Drama

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Сергей Беляев‌

Сергей Беляев

Papa

Виктор Тереля‌

Виктор Тереля

Ольга Дегтярева‌

Ольга Дегтярева

Пётр Зайченко‌

Пётр Зайченко

Татьяна Орлова‌

Татьяна Орлова

Sergey Yarmolyuk‌

Sergey Yarmolyuk

Лариса Домаскина‌

Лариса Домаскина

Сергей Лобанов‌

Сергей Лобанов

Andrii Titov‌

Andrii Titov

Andrey Osipov‌

Andrey Osipov

Viktor Matizen‌

Viktor Matizen