The Train Rolls On

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.

• Release date
• November 1, 1971
• Runtime
• 32 min
• Genres
• Documentary
• Director
• Chris Marker

Cast

Aleksandr Medvedkin Himself François Périer Narrator