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If I remember correctly it ends with Vera coming to visit Platon in a labor
camp - a very Russian ending...
Sergej
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On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, From: Earl Sampson <esamson3@comcast.net>
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> There is an RR terminal movie by the noted Soviet/Russian director Eldar
> Ryazanov, Vokzal dlya dvoikh (A Railroad Station for Two, 1982). I
> confess I didn't remember much about the film - I must have seen it in
> 1983 - so I lifted the following sketchy plot summary from IMDb:
>
> "Platon Gromov, a pianist, is travelling by train to a distant town of
> Griboedov to visit his father. He gets off to have lunch during a twenty
> minute stop at Zastupinsk railway station. He meets Vera, a waitress,
> after he refuses to pay her for the disgusting food he doesn't even touch
> and misses his train due to police investigation of the incident. His
> passport is then accidentally taken away from him by Andrei, Vera's
> fiance, and his money is stolen as he waits for the next train to
> Griboedov. Vera learns that Platon is about to get sentenced and sent to
> prison in the Far East for a car accident he isn't guilty for. During the
> few days that Platon has to spend in Zastupinsk he and Vera develop
> feelings for each other..."
>
> Unfortunately that summary leaves things hanging, but if I remember
> correctly, that's how the movie ends: with no resolution to the
> relationship.
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D. Barton Johnson
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If I remember correctly it ends with Vera coming to visit Platon in a labor
camp - a very Russian ending...
Sergej
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On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, From: Earl Sampson <esamson3@comcast.net>
>
> There is an RR terminal movie by the noted Soviet/Russian director Eldar
> Ryazanov, Vokzal dlya dvoikh (A Railroad Station for Two, 1982). I
> confess I didn't remember much about the film - I must have seen it in
> 1983 - so I lifted the following sketchy plot summary from IMDb:
>
> "Platon Gromov, a pianist, is travelling by train to a distant town of
> Griboedov to visit his father. He gets off to have lunch during a twenty
> minute stop at Zastupinsk railway station. He meets Vera, a waitress,
> after he refuses to pay her for the disgusting food he doesn't even touch
> and misses his train due to police investigation of the incident. His
> passport is then accidentally taken away from him by Andrei, Vera's
> fiance, and his money is stolen as he waits for the next train to
> Griboedov. Vera learns that Platon is about to get sentenced and sent to
> prison in the Far East for a car accident he isn't guilty for. During the
> few days that Platon has to spend in Zastupinsk he and Vera develop
> feelings for each other..."
>
> Unfortunately that summary leaves things hanging, but if I remember
> correctly, that's how the movie ends: with no resolution to the
> relationship.
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D. Barton Johnson
NABOKV-L