Documentary backdrop image for State Road (1988)

Documentary backdrop image for State Road (1988)

198819 minPGdoc-short

State Road

198819 minPGdoc-short

Narrow train carriages transport passengers across a vast country, passing by villages, cities, forests, and factories.

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Viktor Semenyuk

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Narrow train carriages transport passengers across a vast country, passing by villages, cities, forests, and factories.

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Viktor Semenyuk

Viktor Semenyukdirector

Viktor Semenyuk

Viktor Semenyukwriter

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A train travels through a country filled with villages, cities, cemeteries, forests, and factories. Passengers sit in narrow carriages as scenes of everyday life pass by their windows. The documentary poses questions about the identity of the travelers and the train's destination. It lasts 19 minutes and was made in 1988.

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