The Train Rolls On

(1971)

★ 6.6 IMDb · 9 votes

Genres: Documentary

Year: 1971

Runtime: 32 мин

Country: France

Director: Chris Marker

Cast: Александр Медведкин, François Périer

Plot

This half-hour documentary by Chris Marker explores Aleksandr Medvedkin’s 1930s “Cine-Train,” a mobile film studio equipped with cameras, editing rooms, animation stations, and a laboratory. Traveling across the Soviet countryside, the train’s crew documented agricultural and industrial life—from Ukrainian harvests to southern steelworks—while living and working in cramped shared quarters.