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20 out of 24 people found the following review useful:
A film that changed my life, 2 April 2007

Author: SpiritRC from Russian Federation

This is one of the best films I've ever watched. I like almost all Ryazanov's works, but this one has changed my life. Well, not directly mine, but my mother's. After watching this film, my mother finally decided that she can't suffer anymore from her husband, my father, and so she filed for divorce. That was a really wise decision, I must say! And now I'll try to explain what was the role of the film in her making such a decision.

In this film there is a song (soundtrack) sang by Lyudmila Gurchenko, who plays Vera in the film. The music is written by Andrey Petrov and the lyrics are by Eldar Ryazanov himself. I will try to do a translation of the lyrics for you to understand how this song affected a 34 year old woman with a 5 year old child:

We live like there is no hero, We stand like soldiers in a line. Don't be afraid to bet for zero And quickly overcome your life!

Remember us at the beginning? Today we try to never strive. Take smallest chance towards the winning And try to overcome your life!

Let streaks of gray be guests in your hair, It's never late to make a turn. Don't be afraid to bet all you have, And act like you have just reborn!

Whenever rain thrashes your suit's back Try to cheer up and feel alright The time has come to shuffle your pack And try to overcome the life!

Believe in dreams, believe in tales, Don't drag your things all 'round the place: You'll never take them into Hades, So better try and win the race!

Let there be no place for a sorrow When you can't beat your rival's card, You bet your life for the tomorrow - There is no win without a fight!

12 out of 13 people found the following review useful:
nicely done, 27 September 2007

Author: deng43 from United States

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.

13 out of 16 people found the following review useful:
Railway Station for Two: Best Classic of Soviet Love!! Keep a copy!, 9 April 2005

Author: Jing Han from Canada

I keep this movie on the top of my favorite Soviet movies. Typical Russian dark humor and sharply piercing plots, right into heart of human love.

No other director has done so well in the balancing popularity and literary art. The beauty is plain, but keeps coming back to your memory.

I grow up in China but and this title is imprinted into my memory of the wandering time, a seemingly peaceful time, with undercurrent of our human fates in the vast system, and hence the life without a border.

Centrel Russia ( west Siberia) has never been so vivid, and never be so warm. It requires some traveling in the vast inland to fully understand the beauty.

10 out of 11 people found the following review useful:
The melody for two lonely hearts and the rail station, 31 October 2007

Author: Galina from Virginia, USA

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Eldar Alexandrovich Ryazanov, the renowned master of comedies, one of the most beloved Soviet and Russian directors, has written/directed during his long career many films that don't get old or outdated. They are beautiful, moving, funny, and unforgettable. Ryazanov created his own style of lyrical comedy which is known for its subtle delicate humor, often imperfect but likable characters, and the atmosphere of love ready to happen in the most unusual places under the least expectable circumstances. Along with lyrical comedy, Eldar Ryazanov wrote and directed some of most powerful Soviet and Post-Soviet satires, such as 'Garazh' (1979), Zabytaya melodiya dlya fleyty (1988) ... aka Forgotten Melody for a Lonely Flute and "Nebesa Obetovannye" or "Promised Heaven" (1991).

I've seen almost every one of his movies and I love them all but "Vokzal dlya dvoich" is one of his very best. Touching, funny and heartbreaking, "Vokzal dlya dvoich" is perfect as melodrama/romance; the genre that way too often produces over-sentimental sickly sweet unwatchable duds. In "Vokzal dlya dvoich", Platon Ryabinin (Oleg Basiloshvili), the pianist from Moscow, meets the love of his life when he least expects or needs it. He is going through the most difficult period of his life, spending the last days as a free man and awaiting the trial for the crime he did not commit. His wife was driving their car with him as a passenger, and she accidentally hit and killed a man. Platon said to the police and investigators that he was behind the wheel... While on the train to see his elderly father for what could be the last time, Platon stuck at provincial rail station after a quarrel in the station restaurant with a waitress, whom he saw as loud, vulgar, and disgusting - despite her nice figure and striking face (Lyudmila Gurchenko, Soviet movie superstar and a talented singer and writer). At one point, he finds himself with no proper ID and his valet stolen. Now he has to rely on help and understanding from the very woman who caused his delay and distress. After two days that Platon had to spend mostly at the Zastupinsk rail station in the company of Vera, the waitress, the single mother with a typical sad story, both their lives have changed forever.

Nikita Michalkov was remarkable as the obnoxious smug black market dealer - train attendant Andrei, Vera's boyfriend-on-the-move. His two cameos in the movie were brilliant. Basiloshvili and Gurchenko were simply great together, never playing a single false note in this melody for two lonely hearts and the rail station. The film is funny, lyrical, satirical, bittersweet, and dramatic, often at the same time but its final scene when Vera and Platon meet again after she has traveled 7000 km by train, plain, and truck to the Siberia camp where he was serving time is amazing in its emotional power. It is not easy to recall another scene that reveals so much love, loyalty, readiness to go through all possible and impossible obstacles just to be with one you love - for good, for bad, forever - through the eyes of a woman who simply sits at the table and watches her beloved eating or rather wolfing the food that she prepared just for him. Masterful and heartbreaking.

9 out of 12 people found the following review useful:
A beautiful Romantic Movie, 23 April 1999

Author: David Qing Ma (qma@po-box.mcgill.ca) from Montreal

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A pianist, whose wife had killed someone in a traffic accident, decides to go to Siberian jail in her place. On his way to Siberia, he has a train stopover at a small town railway station, where he met a train attendant. In a few days,they became good friends and had lots of fun together. 10 years later, one day in the jail, the man receives a message saying that his wife is coming to see him.........

I first saw this movie when I was 12 years old. The memory is still vivid. If you like A bridge on the Madison County, you will probably like this movie. It's one of Ryazanov's love trilogy. A must for Ryazanov fans.

1 out of 1 people found the following review useful:
Hi, 7 September 2011
Author: uryanskiy from Russia

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http://www.RUSCICO.com/catalog/cataloguedvd/catalogue_121.html RUSCICO Does good DVD with RU EN DE FR ES IT subtitles. Japan greetings! Children a lot of Russian cinema are on the Internet you means badly search. Forgive for English as for me speaks Google.

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Very interesting article I haven't begun to cry nearly Is proud for our cinema It is very pleasant to hear that it makes such effect on the spectator which at all doesn't understand language) it and does cinema by the present!

8 out of 18 people found the following review useful:
I want to know the plot., 18 November 1998
Author: aomori from Ajigasawa, Japan

We usually watch our Russian movies with Japanese subtitles but this one had no subtitles at all - so I was very disappointed to find you haven't any plot summary for this one. You know its got to be a fascinating movie when five people who don't know Russian - and one of whom despises the language - watch it without subtitles, not just once, but three times!

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