The Halt

Trains travel through the night without stopping The clatter of the carriages quickly disappears along with the wail of the locomotive The people at the station are all asleep But why are they so exhausted And what are they waiting for Set inside an isolated train depot The Train Station is one of Sergei Loznitsas most haunting films It is also one of his most pointed social critiques In this film we are brought to a remote train station deep in the Russian woods Its nighttime In the distance we hear the clatter of locomotives The station a small wooden building sits silently surrounded only by snow and train tracks