Morning Trains
A young woman joins a Moscow factory and, through early-morning commutes and workplace trials, searches for real friendship.
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About the film
What it’s about
Three inseparable friends work at a huge Moscow plant and ride the same early train each day, where commuters all know one another. A new passenger appears: Asya, fresh from school and hired at the same factory. She must face many shocks and disappointments before finding true friends and love.
What hooks you
Frunze Dovlatyan and Lev Mirsky direct a cast led by Valentina Malyavina as Asya, with Anatoliy Kuznetsov and Lev Prygunov among her fellow commuters. A continuity detail noticed by viewers: at the fourth minute, the electric train has doors in the middle of a carriage, but they are gone when it departs.
Who it’s for
It suits viewers who like quiet character studies of working life and the slow growth of trust among young adults.
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Year
- 1963
- Genre
- Drama
- Running time
- 1h 30min
- Age rating
- 12+
- World premiere
- Dec 8, 1963
Ratings
MOVIE․ONE · 1,047 votesCreative team
All 12Trivia
- At the 4th minute, it is visible that the commuter train has doors in the middle of the car, but when it departs, they are already gone.
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Morning Trains (1963)