December 31st Express

For the conductor Mykola Ivanovych this was to be an ordinary, quiet run. It is also his last one before retirement. But the passengers who board the train wreck that plan. Among them are a bride running from her wedding and an angry accountant. The carriages are soon in complete confusion. The film tells this as a comedy set on New Year’s Eve. The account works by breaking the crowd down into individual people. The ninety minutes are given to a single train journey. That a man’s last day of service should go this way is the joke the story runs on. Stanislav Boklan and Kateryna Kuznetsova take the leads, with Artemii Yehorov also in the cast, in Oleh Borshchevskyi’s Ukrainian film, completed in 2024.