Movie
Nord Express
1990 · 56 min
A patient, observational train ride through a changing Europe, quiet and contemplative, watching history drift past the window.
- Directed by
- Rob Rombout
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Ben Wagin
- Overview
- In 1896 Georges Nagelmackers launched the Nord Express from Paris to St Petersburg. In 1990 the film rides the 47 hours from Paris to Moscow, in a time of upheaval: in Paris railwaymen lay the new TGV lines, in Berlin the Wall is crumbling, and at Brest, on the Soviet border, the carriages are moved onto broad-gauge bogies. Galina, the sleeping-car attendant, makes tea. In the corridor Theodore, a student, looks out over the curtain. In West Berlin the painter Ben Wagin doubts we will ever go any faster.
- How it feels
- Slow-burning and demanding.
- About
- Memory, politics, freedom, work
- Content
- No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Rob Rombout
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Ben Wagin