Railway Station for Two (USSR, 1982)

[dangermousie]

Mr. Mousie and I are watching Вокзал для двоих (Railway Station for Two), a Russian movie I haven't seen in years but which is just as good as I remember. Made in 1982, RSfT is about the chance meeting in a small town railway station of two extremely different people: the station restaurant waitress Vera and the Moscow pianist Platon who gets stuck in that station when he misses his train.

Neither of them will ever see twenty or thirty again, or hit it off well with each other at the start, and then there is the fact that Platon is shortly to go to jail for a hit and run which he didn't commit. But somehow they end up being thrown together through a series of funny and sad circumstances and well...discover love and each other and hope. And a lot of melons :D

I've forgotten just how awesome this movie is and how real and spot-on it somehow feels. The pace is leisurely to allow the character interactions and development and it's just love. Serious love. It's available on DVD with English, French, Italian etc subs for those who do not speak Russian.

Comments

[miss-dian.livejournal.com]

Whoa. A movie made during the year I was born. How awesome :D Do you speak Russian?

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yes, I do. It's actually my native language. I was born in USSR and lived there until I was 13. Didn't know a word of English until we moved...

[miss-dian.livejournal.com]

Oh cool. I am always impressed with bilingual and/or multilingual people :)

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

YAY! for Voksal dla Dvoyh!! I loved it so much when it was released; I like Eldar Ryazanov'ss works very much. It is great to know that it is released with subtitles. And Mr.Mousie is full of awesome - Even though Mr.Alexander is full of awesome too this film is definitely not his cup of tea!!

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's such a lovely movie. Subs aren't bad actually, though not as good as the dialogue of course. Mr. Mousie is very open to Russian movies actually, which is good :)