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, stars Woody Harrelson, Kate Mara, Emily Mortimer and Ben Kingsley and was set on the Trans-Manchurian Railway/Line, of the Trans-Siberian Railway, between Beijing and Moscow. Filming began in December 2006 in Vilnius, Lithuania, with additional photography in Beijing and Russia. An American couple, Roy and Jessie , 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 , travelling with his young Seattle-born girlfriend, Abby . 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" souvenir matryoshka dolls he is carrying. When Roy misses the train in Irkutsk while sightseeing, Jessie is left alone with Carlos and Abby.
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| Release date: | August 1, 2008 |
| Directed by: | Brad Anderson |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 111 Minutes |
| Producer: | Julio Fernández |
| Screenplay by: | Brad Anderson, Will Conroy |
| Estimated budget: | $15,000,000 |
| Genre: | Thriller |