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Subject
Title : Sotchi...Touapse - Adler by train
Type : documentary
Length : 52 minutes
Original text : Andre Beriault

Images
Ratio : 16:9
Resolution : HD 24p

Production team
Director & camera: Andre Beriault
Assistant: Natalya Bronzova
Narrator: to be confirmed
Music : to be announced

Filming
Projected filming will be summer 2011

The documentary should be available prior to the 2014 Olympic games

Synopsis

Sotchi, is located on the Black Sea in the Russian south-west region of Krasnodar. This documentary will allow us to discover this historical region that will be hosting the 2014 Olympic games.

Vladimir, a chief mechanical engineer on the local railway, will be our host for the visit; he operates the powerful electric locomotives that run between Touapse and Adler close to the Abkhazia border. This unique 130km railway follows the coast line of the Black Sea with a backdrop of crystal blue seas, forests, the occasional palm tree and the snow capped North Caucasus mountain range.

Vladimir, like his father and grand-father before him, gave most of his life to the Russian railway company. Now, after 45 years of service, he is doing his last 18 hour trip, as his train will cross the cities of Shepsi, Lazarevskoye, Loo, Dagomys and Sotchi before it's final destination, Adler.

Many anecdotes rush back to him during this farewell trip; he has so much he wants to tell us. Yes there is the tourists, the world famous Krasnodar tea and the Krashnaya-Polyana mountains, hart of the Olympic games; but above all that, his home region is alive with a unique history going back hundreds of years, back to the Ottoman empire, to the tremendous battles that were fought on its shore between the Turks and the Russians, back to the time when Tzar Alexander took it and declared it Russian after the victories of 1838.

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