Transsiberian is a 2008 thriller directed by Brad Anderson, which premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and began its theatrical release on July 18, 2008 in New York.
The film was written by Anderson and Will Conroy, starred Woody Harrelson, Emily Mortimer and Ben Kingsley, and was set on the Trans-Manchurian Railway between Beijing and Moscow (the film's name is a misnomer). Filming began in December 2006 in Vilnius, Lithuania, with addit...
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Transsiberian is a 2008 thriller directed by Brad Anderson, which premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and began its theatrical release on July 18, 2008 in New York.
The film was written by Anderson and Will Conroy, starred Woody Harrelson, Emily Mortimer and Ben Kingsley, and was set on the Trans-Manchurian Railway between Beijing and Moscow (the film's name is a misnomer). Filming began in December 2006 in Vilnius, Lithuania, with additional photography in Beijing and Russia.
An American couple, Roy (Woody Harrelson) and Jessie (Emily Mortimer), take the train from Beijing to Moscow as an adventurous side trip on their return home from a Christian mission in China. The gregarious Roy befriends their cabin mates, a Spanish man, Carlos (Eduardo Noriega), travelling with his young Seattle-born girlfriend, Abby (Kate Mara). The reserved Jessie does not share her husband's warmth towards the globe trotting pair. In course of the journey, Carlos shows Jessie a collection of "rare"...
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