The movie depicts sad state of town Vinkovci's central railway passenger station. What used to be a railway hub, bustling with life throughout the whole of the last century, today, although in function, seems almost abandoned. However there is much more to this film than simple documentation of the rusty, neglected railway station. The film is an hommage to the recently deceased Krsto Papić, one of the greatest Croatian film directors, and to one of his first documentaries, called „The Hub“, filmed in 1969. This movie is a kind of a time travel machine, because it shows todays state of the once busy railway station, featured also in Krsto's „The Hub“, where thousands of people worked, and millions travelled. What once was a marvel of communist planing and engineering, is now neglected and desolate. Shiny tracks have rusted , white marble has cracked and yellowed. But despite the gloomy and not very promising present, a possibility of a better future is presented. And curiosly, this station, now decrepit and runied, is exactly the station where Mr. Ratchett, the character from the featured film of Agatha Christie's famous novel „Murder on the Orient Express“ is - murdered.
© 2013 Luka Jureta
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