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Nord-Express
Paris to Moscow in 47 hours, in 1990, on a train that has outlived two world wars and now the Wall.
- Year
- 1990
- Runtime
- 59 min
- Countries
- Belgium, France
- Languages
- French, German, Polish, Russian
- Production
- Paradise Films
- Availability
- On request
Moscow.
The route
Train D241, as written on the departure board in the film. Arrival 07:23, departure 07:25.
- ParisThe Nord Express first ran from Paris in 1896.
- BerlinThe Wall has just come down.
- Frankfurt (Oder)
- Poznań
- Warszawa
- BrestAt the Soviet border the whole train is lifted onto new wheels.
- Minskand Smolensk
- Moskva47 hours after Paris.
Places on this line also appear in the atlas, with the other films shot there.
In 1896 the Nord Express joined Paris to St Petersburg. In 1990 Rob Rombout boards it for the 47-hour run to Moscow, just after the Berlin Wall has fallen and Paris lays new high-speed track. At the Soviet border the whole train is lifted onto new wheels. On board, a sleeping-car attendant and a student watch Europe change; in Berlin, a painter talks about speed.
Frames, in the order of the film
Frames from the film, at the size of the source.
Making of
Crew photographs, the route map and the scouting trips, captioned in Rob’s words.
From Rob’s archive: 22 photographs from the scouting trip of 1988, and 17 from the shoot in 1990, from the Gare du Nord to the crew in Moscow. Being selected.
Screenings
3 recorded
“No derailments, no mysterious disappearances, no strange characters.”
Credits
- Direction
- Rob Rombout
- Script
- Rob Rombout, Christian Janssens
- Image
- Louis-Philippe Capelle
- Sound
- Olivier Struye, Paul Heymans
- Editing
- Adriana Moreira de Oliveira
- Music
- Piotr Hertel
- Production
- Paradise Films
- With
- Galina, Theodore, Ben Wargin