A waitress from the provincial railway station falls in love with an accidental passenger. Before this passenger lies the menace of distant prison for the crime he didn't commit.
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Title: A Railway Station for Two (1983)
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| Lyudmila Gurchenko | ... | Vera | |
| Oleg Basilashvili | ... | Platon Sergeyevich | |
| Nikita Mikhalkov | ... | Andrey | |
| Nonna Mordyukova | ... | Uncle Misha | |
| Mikhail Kononov | ... | Nikolasha | |
| Anastasiya Voznesenskaya | ... | Yulia | |
| Tatyana Dogileva | ... | Marina | |
| Olga Volkova | ... | Violetta | |
| Aleksandr Shirvindt | ... | Shurik | |
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Raisa Etush | ... | Lyuda |
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Temurmalik Yunusov | ... | Melon vendor (as Temur Yunusov) |
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Zhanna Aleksandrova | ||
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Ibragim Bargi | ... | (as I. Bargi) |
| Viktor Bortsov | |||
| Alla Budnitskaya | ... | (as A. Budnitskaya) | |
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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... Written by Denis Chebikin <chebikin@mit.edu>
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Written by Andrei Petrov and Eldar Ryazanov
Performed by Lyudmila Gurchenko
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At the end of the movie Vera tries to get a ride for herself and Paton. This doesn't work out, and when the car drives off we can briefly but clearly see the reflection of several crew members. See more »Soundtracks
Zhivyom my chto-to bez azartaWritten by Andrei Petrov and Eldar Ryazanov
Performed by Lyudmila Gurchenko
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Country:
Soviet UnionLanguage:
RussianRelease Date:
11 February 1983 (Soviet Union) See more »Also Known As:
Вокзал для двоих See more »Filming Locations:
Mosfilm Studios, Moscow, RussiaCompany Credits
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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.