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The Edge (2010)

PG-13 09/23/2010 Drama 1h 55m
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Overview

The action takes place shortly after the end of the Second World War in the Siberian hinterland, among Russians and Germans with damaged personal stories and a strange transformation: the victors seem to be crawling into the skins of the defeated, and vice versa. Ignat, is the embodiment of the larger-than-life image of the Soviet victorious warrior who, in fact, proves to be shell-shocked, sick and broken, although not completely destroyed. Trains become fetish for the heroes of the film, and speed becomes a mania; they virtually become one with their steam engines, while the machines take on human names. The heroes set up an almost fatal race in the Siberian forest, risking their own lives and those of others.

Alexey Uchitel

Director

Top Billed Cast

Vladimir Mashkov

Vladimir Mashkov

Ignat

Anjorka Strechel

Anjorka Strechel

Elsa

Yulia Peresild

Yulia Peresild

Sofya

Sergey Garmash

Sergey Garmash

Fishman

Oleksiy Horbunov

Oleksiy Horbunov

Kolyvanov

Vyacheslav Krikunov

Vyacheslav Krikunov

Stepan

Aleksandr Bashirov

Aleksandr Bashirov

Zhilkin

Evgeniy Tkachuk

Evgeniy Tkachuk

Borka

Vladas Bagdonas

Vladas Bagdonas

Butkus

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Official trailer of an Alexey Uchitel film "THE EDGE''

Official trailer of an Alexey Uchitel film "THE EDGE''

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A review by Wuchak

Written on October 16, 2019

***Locomotive Breath in Siberia just after WW2***

In 1945 a disgraced Red Army train engineer, Ignat (Vladimir Mashkov), is assigned to a Labor Camp in Siberia, which houses former Soviet POWs that Stalin assumed collaborated with the enemy and need “re-educated.” His status immediately wins the affection of the in-house babe (Yulia Peresild), but Ignat sets his eyes on an abandoned steam engine cut off from use because of a washed-out bridge. The problem is a German refugee, Elsa (Anjorka Strechel), is using the locomotive as her residence. Then there’s the issue of getting the engine back across the broken bridge.

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