The Railway (2007)
1h 44m
Running Time
August 1, 2007Release Date
Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.

Sergey Belyaev
Papa

Viktor Terelya

Olga Degtyaryova

Pyotr Zaychenko

Tatyana Orlova

Aleksandra Masko
Actress

Sergey Yarmolyuk

Larysa Domaskina

Sergey Lobanov

Andrii Titov

Andrey Osipov

Viktor Matizen

Aleksey Fedorchenko
Producer / Director

Aleksandr Pantykin
Music

Aleksandr Gonorovskiy
Writer

Oleg Pashchenko
Production Design

Dmitriy Vorobyov
Producer

Leonid Ilyukhin
Director of Photography

Lyudmila Zalozhneva
Editor

Aleksandr Gonorovsky
Writer

Valeri Lukinov
ProductionDesigner

Aleksey Potapov
ProductionDesigner
Details.
Release DateAugust 1, 2007
Original NameЖелезная дорога
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 44m
Genres
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