The Train (1988)

Movie
German title	The train
Original title	Lenin: The Train / Il treno di Lenin
Country of production	Italy , Germany , France , Austria
Publishing year	1988
length	208 minutes
Rod
Director	Damiano Damiani
script	Damiano Damiani Fulvio Gicca Palli
production	Enrico Bergier
music	Nicola Piovani
camera	Sebastiano Celeste
cut	Enzo Meniconi
occupation
Ben Kingsley : Lenin Dominique Sanda : Inessa Armand Leslie Caron : Nadeschda Krupskaja Timothy West : Alexander Parvus (Helphand) Peter Whitman : Karl Radek Xabier Elorriaga : Fritz Platten Jason Connery : David Suljashvili Paolo Bonacelli : Grigory Zinoviev Wolfgang Gasser : Julius Martow Günther Maria Halmer : from Planetz Dagmar Schwarz : Olga Jeannine Mestre : Lilina Alan Goodson : Georgi Safarow

The Train is an Italian-French-German-Austrian television film directed by Damiano Damiani from 1988. It was first shown in Germany in February 1990 as a two-part television film.

action

The plot of the film takes place during the First World War , in 1917. The German Reich is fighting simultaneously on two fronts, in the west and in the east . In this situation, a Russian in exile turns to the German General Staff : Lenin , the Russian revolutionary who lives in exile in Switzerland in Zurich , should be allowed to return to his homeland in order to bring about a successful upheaval in the political conditions in the Russian Empire . The proposal is being implemented. Lenin boarded a special train with a group of exiled revolutionaries and traveled from Switzerland through Germany and Sweden to Petrograd . During the journey of the train , Lenin discussed his political ideas with his fellow passengers.

background

The film depicts a historical event , Lenin's journey in a sealed car with Inès Armand and Nadeschda Krupskaja from Switzerland to Petrograd.

Unlike in Sergei Jutkewitsch's Lenin in Paris , in which the censors had banned the love story between Lenin and “Inessa”, Damiano Damiani's film is dedicated to this relationship.

criticism

“A film staged with great effort and international stars, which endeavors to reconstruct this 'historical train journey' precisely. As Lenin, Ben Kingsley gives a fascinatingly differentiated portrayal. "

- Lexicon of international film .

On the occasion of the TV first broadcast on ZDF, DER SPIEGEL wroteof a “huge historical ham” with a “Lenin who is constantly discussing”.

Web links

• The train in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• QUEL TRENO DI LENIN Film review in: La Repubblica, December 3, 1988

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The train. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .  
2. ↑ The train (I) . In: Der Spiegel . No. 6 , 1990 ( online - Feb. 5, 1990 ).