Express on Fire

Express on Fire (Russian: 34-й скорый, romanized: 34-y skoryy, 34th Express) is a 1981 Soviet disaster film directed by Andrei Malyukov.[1][2]

Express on Fire
Directed byAndrei Malyukov
Written byVsevolod Ivanov
Andrei Malyukov
Starring
Music byMark Minkov
CinematographyYuri Gantman
Production
company
Release date
  • 1981 (1981)
Running time
78 minutes
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian

Plot

The express train number 34 Moscow-Elekmonar sets off on schedule. The young conductor Seraphima takes three stowaways to her car. During the audit, this fact is revealed, the conductor gets reprimanded from the chief and the stowaways must be let out, but one of them falls in love with the conductor and leaves the train at the junction station Shmakovka and forcibly takes her with him. In the compartment he leaves an uncovered cigarette butt and a half-drunk glass of alcohol, because of which a fire begins in the car number 8.

Engineers taking the diesel locomotive train from Shmakovka shortly before the detection of the fire are discussing the difficult rise on which their train is moving at the moment. After stopping the train, the railwaymen evacuate people who pass safely. The burning car is removed to a safe distance from the rest. In order not to get cold, the passengers of the remaining wagons return to their seats. But the passenger-speculator, jumping out of the car, drops a suitcase with money under his wheels and pushes the car to save the suitcase. As a result, the whole car, embroiled in flames, rolls on the slope and pushes forward the remaining cars of the train with the passengers. An uncontrolled train is gaining ground under a slope, people on the run are jumping out of the cars.

A catastrophe is imminent and the railwaymen try their utmost to prevent it ...

Cast
  • Vasily Badaev — episode
  • Zoya Vasilkova — episode (uncredited)
  • Anatoly Vedenkin — passenger with a guitar
  • Vyacheslav Ezepov — passenger—speculator
  • Peteris Gaudinsh — Pyotr (voiced by Leonid Belozorovich)
  • Oleg Golubitsky — Semyon Ignatievich, the head of the train
  • Lev Durov — Mikhail (Clown of the Cartoon)
  • Vadim Ivanov — episode (uncredited)
  • Valentina Klyagina — Zina, the conductor
  • Veronica Kovtun — owner of an antique store (uncredited)
  • Galina Kravchenko — a passenger with a dog
  • Elena Mayorova — the conductor of Seraphim Steshkov "Sima"
  • Grigory Malikov — cadet
  • Alexander Massarsky — episode
  • Algimantas Masiulis — Boris (voiced by Felix Yavorsky)
  • Daniil Netrebin — Egorich, the train driver
  • Svetlana Orlova — passenger of the 8th wagon, stewardess
  • Irina Pechernikova — a stowaway passenger
  • Alexander Pyatkov — Sashka, employee of the dining car
  • Valery Ryzhakov — stowaway passenger
  • Alexander Ryshchenkov — Yura, newlywed
  • Vladimir Sirota — second assistant to the machinist
  • Konstantin Titov — episode (uncredited)
  • Leonid Trutnev — Assistant Engineer
  • Aleksandr Fatyushin — Alexander Mukhanov, stowaway passenger
  • Natalia Florenskaya — a young mother with a child
  • Natalya Khorokhorina — Vera, barmaid
  • Lyudmila Tsvetkova — episode
  • Stanislav Chechin — episode
  • Marina Shimanskaya — Raisa Kostina, the bride

References
  1. "34-й скорый". VokrugTV.
  2. "34-й скорый. Х/ф". Russia-1.

Express on Fire at IMDb

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