A Railway Station for Two (1982)
"Vokzal dlya dvoikh" (original title)

Platon Ryabinin, a pianist, is traveling by train to a distant town of Griboedov to visit his father. He gets off to have lunch during a twenty minute stop at Zastupinsk railway station. He... See full summary »

Director:

Eldar Ryazanov

Writers:

Emil Braginskiy, Eldar Ryazanov

Stars:

Lyudmila Gurchenko, Oleg Basilashvili, Nikita Mikhalkov

1 nomination.

Cast

Credited cast:
Lyudmila Gurchenko	...	Vera
Oleg Basilashvili	...	Platon Sergeyevich
Nikita Mikhalkov
Nonna Mordyukova	...	Uncle Misha
Mikhail Kononov
Anastasia Voznesenskaya
Aleksandr Shirvindt
Tatyana Dogileva
Olga Volkova
Raisa Etush
Temur Yunusov
Anatoliy Skoryakin
Stanislav Sadalskiy
Alla Budnitskaya	...	(as A. Budnitskaya)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Zhanna Aleksandrova

Storyline

Platon Ryabinin, a pianist, is traveling by train to a distant town of Griboedov to visit his father. He gets off to have lunch during a twenty minute stop at Zastupinsk railway station. He meets Vera, a waitress, after he refuses to pay her for the disgusting food he doesn't even touch and misses his train due to police investigation of the incident. His passport is then accidentally taken away from him by Andrei, Vera's fiancé, and his money is stolen as he waits for the next train to Griboedov. Vera learns that Platon is about to get sentenced and sent to prison in the Far East for a car accident he isn't guilty for. During the few days that Platon has to spend in Zastupinsk he and Vera develop feelings for each other...

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Genres:

Romance

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Details

Country:

Soviet Union

Language:

Russian

Release Date:

1982 (Soviet Union)

Also Known As:

A Railway Station for Two

Company Credits

Production Co:

Mosfilm

Technical Specs

Runtime:

141 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Sovcolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Did You Know?

Soundtracks

"Zhivyom my chto-to bez azarta"
Written by Andrei Petrov and Eldar Ryazanov
Performed by Lyudmila Gurchenko

User Reviews

nicely done

i watch the actors, lyudmila as vera in particular, and i wish they could make more films that i could access. meryl streep, whom i like very much, hasn't got a thing on lyudmila; this is one vibrant and vivid actress with a face the camera loves to love.

the movie seemed very french to me; my wife thought Italian. at any rate it is not an American film. the sensibility is far more oblique and understated. i recall a stephen rea film about the ussr where he is a detective tracking down a serial killer; i think that movie really tries to portray what life must be like in Russia, but finally it is really just a cliché when compared to this film. this movie breathes 'other' and we must switch gears to attempt to see who these folk are and what they are about. a very fine bit of film making that satisfies all the way thru.