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THE RAILWAY

JELEZNAY DOROGA

By Aleksey FEDORCHENKO

ANTIPODE SALES & DISTRIBUTION LLC - as SALES All rights, World

Road movie - Completed 2008

- Year of production
- 2008
- Genres
- Road movie, Comedy
- Countries
- RUSSIA
- Languages
- RUSSIAN
- Duration
- 105 mn
- Director(s)
- Aleksey FEDORCHENKO
- Writer(s)
- Aleksandr GONOROVSKY
- Cast
- Sergey BELYAYEV, Victor TERELYA, Olga DEGTYAREVA, Daniel SHAVKUNOV, Elena VESHKURTSEVA, Peter ZAICHENKO
- Producer(s)
- Dmitry VOROBYOV (LLC February 29th), Aleksey FEDORCHENKO (LLC February 29th)
- Synopsis
- The film plot is seemingly simple: two friends (a school principal Parentsov and a truck driver who is referred to as Father) steal a large amount of coal and take it by an old abandoned rail into the vast borderless steppe where they want to sell it. Driver’s numb son Misha and a strange and formidable being, Engine Driver, accompany them. The story of a huge locomotive that the group uses for transporting the coal runs parallel to the main plot line. The locomotive was once called Tsar the Vampire and represented a symbol of enormous power that could be compared with the energy of the whole great world. Later it was turned into a museum exhibit. And now it serves as a transport means for the stolen coal.
  The third line is dedicated to a travelling circus that disappeared several years earlier while touring the neighbourhood. Members of the circus troupe got adjusted to living in the wilderness, and our heroes keep running into the former circus workers – clowns, acrobats and circus staff – as they ride across the steppe. However, we can only recognize their circus identity by a certain theatricality in their behaviour, as they have neither circus garments no red noses.
  But, after all, the stolen coal story, the Soviet-spirit fantasy and the story of the Wild Circus are nothing but a background for the core idea of the plot: to show how Father leaves a passion-led life behind and, having gone to the end the long Way of Forgiveness, finally finds happiness for himself and his son Misha…