Released:
1971-11-01

Overview:
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.

Director:
Chris Marker

Runtime:
0h 32min

Genre:
Documentary

• Cast:
• 
  Aleksandr Medvedkin
  as
  Himself
• 
  François Périer
  as
  Narrator