The Train Rolls On

Name: The Train Rolls On
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1971-11-01
Duration: 32 min
Rating: 6.3

1971·32m·Released

Documentary

This half-hour documentary by Chris Marker explores Aleksandr Medvedkin’s 1930s “Cine-Train,” a mobile film studio equipped with cameras, editing rooms, animation stations, and a laboratory. Traveling across the Soviet countryside, the train’s crew documented agricultural and industrial life—from Ukrainian harvests to southern steelworks—while living and working in cramped shared quarters.