SYNOPSIS

A train departing from the Kyrgyz mountains initiates an inner voyage, composed with the patient rhythm of a fable but described in a voice so haunted it must be truth. A panoramic, black and white evocation of the central Asian steppe is supported by an allusive first-person narrator who gradually discloses an unrecognized tragedy of cultural disintegration. Base camps, wild horses, another world outside the window and a phantom within: the sparse landscape reluctantly surrenders the sensations of a man forced from his home and a nation split from its soul.

Prizes

Prize Scam for the best Belgian audiovisual documentary 2004
Cineform Award - Film Festival Seoul, South-Corea
Special mention Festival Filmer à tout prix, Bruxelles, Belgium
Diplom of honour - Cracow Film Festival, Poland
Broadcasted on the Belgian national TV Channel RTBF

Technical data

Director
Script
Photography
Editing
Sound
Narrator
Mixing
Music & songs
Technical assistance
Russian translation
English translation
Production
Coproduction
Xavier Christiaens with Sandrine Blaise
Xavier Christiaens
Xavier Christiaens
Xavier Christiaens
Sandrine Blaise
Oleg Tsoy
Mathieu Delvaux
Xavier Christiaens
Michel Dutry
Alexandra Leurquin
Jo-Anne Velin
Atouda (Belgium), Sandrine Blaise and Erick Lignon © Ostrov
Wallonie image production (Belgium), Christine Pireaux