The Edge

The Edge

115 mins | Drama | Sept. 23, 2010

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.

The Edge

115 mins | Drama | Sept. 23, 2010

The Edge
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.
IMDb rating 6.5
Producers Rock Films
Original title Край
Directors Alexey Uchitel
Writers Aleksandr Gonorovsky

Cast

Vladimir Mashkov

as Ignat

Yulia Peresild

as Sofya

Sergey Garmash

as Fishman

Aleksey Gorbunov

as Kolyvanov

Aleksandr Bashirov

as Zhilkin

Evgeniy Tkachuk

as Borka

Vladas Bagdonas

as Butkus

Anna Ukolova

as Matilda

Ruben Karapetyan

as Sarkisyan

Vadim Yakovlev

as paramedic

Axel Schrick

as Haneke

Boris Lapidus

as stoker

Tatyana Ryabokon

as Golovina

Semyon Belotserkovskiy

as local resident