Death takes the train in this Soviet-era fever dream where mythology meets melancholy.
Based on the works of Jean Anouilh. Eurydice and Orpheus meet on the platform of a railway station along with other heroes of the film. Among them is Death, who kills Eurydice. Orpheus tries in vain to save Eurydice from the kingdom of death.
Production
Railway station becomes liminal purgatory through set design.
Acting
Ninidze's Orpheus: hollow-eyed desperation in every gesture.
Direction
Dolidze stages Anouilh like a waking nightmare.
Director
Keti Dolidze
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Georgia's final Soviet years, the film channels national anxiety through Greek tragedy—death arrives not as drama but as bureaucratic routine.
Anouilh's original play Eurydice premiered in 1941; Dolidze's adaptation transplants its occupation-era fatalism onto a crumbling empire's infrastructure.
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