The Train Rolls On

Name: The Train Rolls On
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1971-11-01
Duration: 32 min
Rating: 6.6
Cast: Aleksandr Medvedkin, François Périer

Le Train en marche (1971)

0:32 (32 min)

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France

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Societe pour le Lancement des Oeuvres Nouvelles (SLON)

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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.