Edge of War ( Kray ) ( The Edge )

Edge of War (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Kray
Alternate Title: The Edge
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Russian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
119 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2010 and produced in:
Russia ( Russia, Eastern Europe )

Directed By:
Aleksey Uchitel

Written By:
Aleksandr Gonorovskiy

Actors:
Vladimir Mashkov ..... Ignat
Anjorka Strechel ..... Elza
Yuliya Peresild ..... Sofiya
Sergey Garmash ..... Major Fishman
Aleksey Gorbunov ..... Kolivanov
Vyacheslav Krikunov ..... Stepan
Aleksandr Bashirov ..... Zilkin
Evgeniy Tkachuk ..... Borka
Vladas Bagdonas ..... Butkus
Anna Ukolova ..... Matilda
Ruben Karapetyan ..... Sarkisian
Vadim Yakovlev ..... Feldsher
Axel Schrick ..... Haneke
Timm Sebastian Peltner ..... Gustav
Boris Lapidus ..... Kochegar

Synopsis:

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.

In 1945, in the end of the World War II, the Russian war hero Ignat is sent to a Siberian labor camp of collaborationist to work as mechanic of the locomotive that transports wood. Ignat has a concussion that makes him lose consciousness and loves locomotives, but is not allowed to be a driver. Ignat meets the Russian Sofia that has a German boy named Pashka and he has a love affair with her. When Ignat learns that there is an abandoned locomotive in the woods, he decides to repair the vehicle. But he finds the aggressive German girl Elsa living aboard of the train that tries to protect her abode. But Elsa ends teaming up with Ignat and helping him to fix the locomotive and repair of the bridge to cross the river. When Ignat returns to the labor camp, he has a love affair with the outcast Elsa and Sofia is jealous of her. They both are outcast and Ignat and his locomotive "Gustav" are rejected by the dwellers and lives with Elsa in the train. But when the cruel Major Fishman arrives in the camp, their lives will not be the same again.

During the second world war, camp labourers are working in squalor supplying steam engines and fuel for the Russian troop trains in Siberia. When one of workers discovers a German girl who had been hiding in one of the trains throughout the war, it kick starts a sequence of life threatening events for both of them as their struggle for survival begins in a savage and war-torn country.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 05 March, 2015.

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