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.
Directed by Alexey Uchitel
Starring Vladimir Mashkov, Anjorka Strechel, Yulia Peresild, Sergey Garmash, Oleksiy Horbunov, Vyacheslav Krikunov, Aleksandr Bashirov, Evgeniy Tkachuk
Released in cinemas in the United States on 11 November 2010.
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Release dates in the United States
In cinemas
11 November 2010
Digital release
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First cinema release anywhere
23 September 2010 (Canada, Kazakhstan and Russia)
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