Speeding trains slice through the silence of the small train stop. The whistle on the locomotive and the thunder of the wheels disappear into the night, but fail to wake up people at the station. People just continue to sleep. What do they wait for? What will wake them up?
The name of Sergei Loznitsa is now well known at film festivals, but the Ukrainian’s early works remain little seen. This enthralling short documentary on the post-Soviet era dreamily depicts a nation that has fallen into a deep sleep. What will it take to wake them up?
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