The Last Train (Posledniy Poezd)
Aleksei German, the 26 year-old son of the distinguished Russian filmmaker Aleksai German, turns to his own family history for inspiration in his debut feature. Set in the white winter of 1944, The Last Train tells the story of a German doctor who travels to the Russian front, inspired by a genuine desire to aid the fallen. Told in a series of dreamlike tableaux and shot in black and white so crisp you can almost feel the ice forming in the air, this haunting study of one man's decency stand as a profoundly humanist testament to the futility of war.
Reviews
“A harrowing, haunting chamber piece.”
Peter Keough, FIPRESCI
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12:45 PM Tuesday, 22 February
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Greater Union - Cinema 1
5:30 PM Wednesday, 23 February
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Greater Union - Cinema 1
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Full price $14
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General FeaturesAbout The Last Train
82 minutes35mm
2.35:1
Dolby Digital SRD
In Russian/German with English subtitles
Print Source
Kinobureau No.1
Natalia Kochetova
kochetova@kinoslovo.ru
Awards
FIPRESCI Prize, Thessaloniki International Film Festival 2004Festivals
Edinburgh 2004Thessaloniki 2004
Vancouver 2004
About the Director
Aleksei German Jr.
Aleksei A. German Jr. is the son of the Russian filmmaker Aleksei German (My Friend Ivan Lapshin). Previously he had directed three short films, most recently Little Fools (2001), made in the same year he graduated from VGIK (State Institute of Cinema). The Last Train is his first feature and is based on the kindness his mother and grandmother experienced In WWII, when they were let out of a wagon transporting them to a camp by a German soldier.