Kray
Directed by:
Aleksey UchitelCinematography:
Yuriy KlimenkoComposer:
David HolmesCast:
Vladimir Mashkov, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Aleksey Gorbunov, Yulia Peresild, Sergey Garmash, Aleksandr Bashirov, Alexej Polujan, Anjorka Strechel (more)Plots(1)
The action takes place shortly after the end of the Second World War in the Siberian hinterland, among Russians and Germans with damaged personal stories and a strange transformation: the victors seem to be crawling into the skins of the defeated, and vice versa. Ignat, is the embodiment of the larger-than-life image of the Soviet victorious warrior who, in fact, proves to be shell-shocked, sick and broken, although not completely destroyed. Trains become fetish for the heroes of the film, and speed becomes a mania; they virtually become one with their steam engines, while the machines take on human names. The heroes set up an almost fatal race in the Siberian forest, risking their own lives and those of others. (official distributor synopsis)
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This was a very interestingly shot Russian historical movie that is, however, overly focused on showing us trains in the best possible way. The director is probably a little bit of a train freak. I expected a bit more action, but it all drowned in the incredible amount of footage of clean, dirty, wet, dry, hot or snowed-in trains.
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