The Railway

The Railway

2007
1h 44m
3.9

3.9/10

7 votes • View on IMDb
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.

Status: Released

Language: RU

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Production Information

Production Companies
29th February Film Company
Production Countries
Russia
Spoken Languages
Russian

Quick Facts

Original Title Железная дорога
Release Date August 1, 2007
Status Released
Language RU
IMDb ID tt1386956

Cast

Sergey Belyaev
Sergey Belyaev

Papa

Viktor Terelya
Viktor Terelya

Olga Degtyaryova
Olga Degtyaryova

Pyotr Zaychenko
Pyotr Zaychenko

Tatyana Orlova
Tatyana Orlova

Sergey Yarmolyuk
Sergey Yarmolyuk

Larysa Domaskina
Larysa Domaskina

Sergey Lobanov
Sergey Lobanov

Andrii Titov
Andrii Titov

Andrey Osipov
Andrey Osipov

Viktor Matizen
Viktor Matizen

Key Crew

Alexey Fedorchenko
Producer
Dmitry Vorobyov
Producer
Alexey Fedorchenko
Director
Aleksandr Gonorovsky
Writer

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