The Edge
6.5
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.
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Cast
33 people
Vladimir Mashkov
Ignat
Known for
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
Behind Enemy Lines
Anjorka Strechel
Elsa
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My Friend from Faro
Furia
Yulia Peresild
Sofya
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Battle for Sevastopol
A Rough Draft
Sergey Garmash
Fishman
Known for
Brigada
Attraction
Oleksiy Horbunov
Kolyvanov
Known for
The Bureau
Möbius
Vyacheslav Krikunov
Stepan
Also in
Murderers
Captive
Aleksandr Bashirov
Zhilkin
Known for
The Master and Margarita
The Needle
Evgeniy Tkachuk
Borka
Known for
Dead Mountain: The Dyatlov Pass Incident
How Viktor "The Garlic" Took Alexey "The Stud" to the Nursing Home
Vladas Bagdonas
Butkus
Known for
Come and See
Calculator
Anna Ukolova
Matilda
Known for
Leviathan
Difficult Teens
Ruben Karapetyan
Sarkisyan
Also in
The Voice in the Wilderness
In the cape 2
Vadim Yakovlev
paramedic
Also in
Long Miles of War
National Security Agent
Alexey Uchitel Director · Aleksey Gonorovsky Author David Holmes Composer
Worldwide gross $5.4M · Budget $11M · United States release November 11, 2010
Box office
Budget
$11,000,000
Worldwide gross
$5,380,142
Gross vs. budget
0.5×
Production
Rock Films
Production
Russia
Produced in
Languages
Original title
Край
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
Russian
Release dates
Canada · September 23, 2010
Limited theatrical
Russia · September 23, 2010
Theatrical
United States · November 11, 2010
Theatrical
France
December 14, 2010 · Limited theatrical · Les Arcs International Film Festival
November 5, 2013 · Physical
Germany
December 12, 2013 · Physical
Kazakhstan
September 23, 2010 · Theatrical
United Kingdom
January 28, 2013 · Physical · DVD
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