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The Edge

5.8(64)20101h 55m2

The action takes place shortly after the end of the Second World War in the Siberian hinterland, among Russians and Germans with damaged personal stories and a strange transformation: the victors seem to be crawling into the skins of the defeated, and vice versa. Ignat, is the embodiment of the larger-than-life image of the Soviet victorious warrior who, in fact, proves to be shell-shocked, sick and broken, although not completely destroyed. Trains become fetish for the heroes of the film, and speed becomes a mania; they virtually become one with their steam engines, while the machines take on human names. The heroes set up an almost fatal race in the Siberian forest, risking their own lives and those of others.

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Status
Released
Budget
$11M
Box office
$5.4M
Language
Russian

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Russia

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalPG-1311 Nov 2010
  • United KingdomGB

    • Physical15DVD28 Jan 2013
  • CanadaCA

    • Theatrical (limited)18A23 Sept 2010
  • FranceFR

    • Theatrical (limited)TPLes Arcs International Film Festival14 Dec 2010
    • PhysicalTP5 Nov 2013
  • GermanyDE

    • Physical1212 Dec 2013
  • KazakhstanKZ

    • Theatrical23 Sept 2010
  • RussiaRU

    • Theatrical16+23 Sept 2010

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The Edge was released on 23 September 2010.

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    Wuchak

    10/16/2019

    8/10

    ***Locomotive Breath in Siberia just after WW2*** In 1945 a disgraced Red Army train engineer, Ignat (Vladimir Mashkov), is assigned to a Labor Camp in Siberia, which houses former Soviet POWs that Stalin assumed collaborated with the enemy and need “re-educated.” His status immediately wins the affection of the in-house babe (Yulia Peresild), but Ignat sets his eyes on an abandoned steam engine cut off from use b…

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