The Train Rolls On

Name: The Train Rolls On
Director: Chris Marker
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1971-11-01
Duration: 32 min
Rating: 6.286
Cast: Aleksandr Medvedkin, François Périer

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Released

Production

Societe pour le Lancement des Oeuvres Nouvelles (SLON)

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1971-11-01

The Train Rolls On

This half-hour documentary by Chris Marker explores Aleksandr Medvedkin’s 1930s “Cine-Train,” a mobile film studio equipped with cameras, editing rooms, animation stations, and a laboratory. Traveling across the Soviet countryside, the train’s crew documented agricultural and industrial life—from Ukrainian harvests to southern steelworks—while living and working in cramped shared quarters.

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Himself

Aleksandr Medvedkin

Narrator

François Périer