The film takes place during one day of operation of a railway line, the capacity of which is lower than necessary. A disaster occurs: a passenger train crashes into a tank train, the driver's assistant is killed, and traffic on the section is delayed. The film explores the patterns that led to the accident.
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Cast
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Kirill Lavrov
Urzhumov
Known for
The Master and Margarita
Vsevolod Kuznetsov
Zhelnin
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Old Man Khottabych
Marina Tregubovich
Lyudmila
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Pavel Semenikhin
Sanka
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Ruf
Lyudmila Gurchenko
Gvozdeva
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Vladimir Gostyukhin
Boychuk
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Ivan Agafonov
Shilov
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Igor Dmitriev
Double
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson
Hamlet
Sergei Prokhanov
Student
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Mikhail Pogorzhelsky
Urzhumov's assistant
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Boris Sokolov
Isayev
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Yuri Demich
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Viktor Tregubovich Director · Valeriy Barabashov Author Aleksey Rybnikov Composer
First release August 8, 1983 · Produced in Russia, Russia · Original title Магистраль
Production
Lenfilm
Production
Russia · Russia
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Original title
Магистраль
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
Russian
Release dates
Russia · August 8, 1983
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
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