In the night we celebrate the beginning of the workshop after all crews have been spending the day discussing their films, location hunting or shooting. Happiness by Medvedkin is screened during this party.
The Moviement team had the good idea to invite an employee of the Railways Company to introduce us the 'Trans-Siberian experience'. The brave man, happy to be on stage and experiencing thereafter his 15 minutes of celebrity, has been giving his spare time during the last months trying to convince the company as an insider of giving a whole wagon for the Cinetrain crew. It was eventually a failure... At a time when the Trans-Siberian is one of the most comfortable train trips existing, which can even be a pleasant holiday for an average family of Europeans, the man is really putting an extra effort to present the famous train line as a true adventure. And explaining humorously on the importance of being nice with the 'provodnitsa' (the wagon manager), how to use toilets of the train or to get off when you have to jump more than one meter to reach the platform, etc.
The Russians are the first ones not only to keep their myths alive, but also all the sorts of clichés and stereotypes about themselves.
The Moviement team had the good idea to invite an employee of the Railways Company to introduce us the 'Trans-Siberian experience'. The brave man, happy to be on stage and experiencing thereafter his 15 minutes of celebrity, has been giving his spare time during the last months trying to convince the company as an insider of giving a whole wagon for the Cinetrain crew. It was eventually a failure... At a time when the Trans-Siberian is one of the most comfortable train trips existing, which can even be a pleasant holiday for an average family of Europeans, the man is really putting an extra effort to present the famous train line as a true adventure. And explaining humorously on the importance of being nice with the 'provodnitsa' (the wagon manager), how to use toilets of the train or to get off when you have to jump more than one meter to reach the platform, etc.
The Russians are the first ones not only to keep their myths alive, but also all the sorts of clichés and stereotypes about themselves.
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