The Railway

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Sergey Belyaev

Papa

Age : 64 | Popularity : 3%

Viktor Terelya

Age : 60 | Popularity : 3%

Olga Degtyaryova

Age : 43 | Popularity : 3%

Pyotr Zaychenko

Age : 75 | Popularity : 3%

Tatyana Orlova

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Sergey Yarmolyuk

Age : N/A | Popularity : 5%

Larysa Domaskina

Age : 54 | Popularity : 7%

Sergey Lobanov

Age : 61 | Popularity : 7%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Aleksey Fedorchenko
Writing	Writer	Aleksandr Gonorovsky
Production	Producer	Dmitriy Vorobyov Aleksey Fedorchenko
Camera	Director of Photography	Leonid Ilyukhin
Sound	Music	Aleksandr Pantykin
Art	Production Design	Oleg Pashchenko
Editing	Editor	Lyudmila Zalozhneva
Department	Role	Name

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