Aleksey FEDORCHENKO
Алексей ФЕДОРЧЕНКО
Alekseï FEDORTCHENKO
Russia, 2007, 105mn 
fiction
The Railway
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Железная дорога

 

 Le Chemin de fer

 Zheleznaya doroga

 
Directed by : Aleksey FEDORCHENKO (Алексей ФЕДОРЧЕНКО)
Writing credits : Aleksandr GONOROVSKY (Александр ГОНОРОВСКИЙ)
 
Cast
Sergey BELYAYEV ( Сeргей БЕЛЯЕВ) ...Le père
Olga DEGTIAREVA (Ольга ДЕГТЯРЕВА) ...Louisa
Daniil SHAVKUNOV (Даниил ШАВКУНОВ) ...Michka
Viktor TERELYA (Виктор ТЕРЕЛЯ) ...Directeur de l'école
Yelena VESHKURTSEVA (Елена ВЕШКУРЦЕВА) ...Mama
 
Production design : Valery LUKINOV (Валерий ЛУКИНОВ)
Music : Sergey SIDELNIKOV (Сергей СИДЕЛЬНИКОВ)
Produced by : Aleksey FEDORCHENKO (Алексей ФЕДОРЧЕНКО)
Production : 29 Février (29 февраля)
 

Plot 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.
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema, Pesaro (Italy), 2010
- Sao Paulo International Film Festival, Sao Paulo (Brazil ), 2008
- Comic Film Festival "Ulybnis, Rossiya", Moscow (Russia), 2008
- Stockholm International Film Festival, Stockholm (Sweden), 2008
- "Vyborg" Russian Film Festival (formerly ''A Window to Europe''), Vyborg (Russia), 2007

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