Published: 29 August, 2007, 08:58
Edited: 29 August, 2007, 08:58
A new feature film by Russian director Aleksey Fedorchenko, “The Railroad”, has premiered in Moscow. It tells the story of two friends, a school teacher and a car driver, who steal a train wagon full of coal.
Hoping to sell it, they take a steam locomotive from a museum and use it to haul their stolen goods along a deserted railway track. The teacher needs the money to renovate the old school where he works, while the driver's motives are personal – he simply wants to leave his wife.
The film's genre is hard to define. It is a drama with elements of comedy, thriller, fantasy and lots of erotic episodes.
The director says that his movie is about people's quest for happiness and their destructive passions.