The Railway (2007)

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Movie basic details

Current status - Released
Total runtime - 104 mins.
Release date - 01-08-2007
Release year - 2007
Genres - Drama, Fantasy

Overall ratings and scores for The Railway:
Happiness Score - 5/10, World Popularity Score - 0.769/100, IMDB Score - 6.5, Metascore - N/A, Internet Movie Database - 6.5/10, .
The Railway movie has Total Global Votes - 5, Total IMD Votes - 70

The Railway Movie Introduction: Movie The Railway, release year 2007 is written by Aleksandr Gonorovskiy and directed by Aleksey Fedorchenko. The leading star-cast in this movie are Sergey Belyaev, Olga Degtyaryova, Larisa Domaskina along with the other stars and crew members.

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Movie overview and plot by Gail Douglas

Movie in-short: An art house movie tells about the search for love and happiness. A school principal and his friend hijack an old steam locomotive and start a travel along the abandoned railroad - to deal in coal. The film plot is seemingly simpl...

Movie story-line: 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.

Movie synopsis: An art house movie tells about the search for love and happiness. A school principal and his friend hijack an old steam locomotive and start a travel along the abandoned railroad - to deal in coal. 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 traveling circus that disappeared several years earlier while touring the neighborhood. 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 behavior, 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...

Highlights - The Railway (2007)

Total budget - $0.00
Total revenue - $0.00
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Produced in - Russia
Available languages - Russian (Pусский),
Homepage URL -
Awards won / Nominations - N/A
Certificate(s) -

Lead Actors, Writer(s), Director(s) of The Railway (2007)

Lead Actors - Sergey Belyaev, Olga Degtyaryova, Larisa Domaskina
Writer(s) - Aleksandr Gonorovskiy
Director(s) - Aleksey Fedorchenko