Elsa has been taken away, he chases down the commissar with "Gustav", running on parallel tracks. Further back, the camp's main locomotive, carrying many of the camp members, is also chasing down the commissar's train, angry over the brutality they witnessed. Ignat's engine is faster, and he manages to get ahead of the commissar's train in a winter race through the woods. He stops the Commissar by cutting him off at a set of points, and knocks him out. Later the arriving train with much of the camp personnel find the commissar and send him packing down the line on a bicycle. The final scene shows Ignat and Elsa making their escape on a railway pump car, to start a new life elsewhere in the Soviet Union. Cast Vladimir Mashkov as Ignat, front-line soldier, locomotive driver Anjorka Strechel as Elsa Yulia Peresild as Sofia Sergey Garmash as Fishman Aleksei Gorbunov as Kolyvanov Vyacheslav Krikunov as Stepan Aleksandr Bashirov as Zhilkin Evgeniy Tkachuk as Borka Vladas Bagdonas as Butkus Anna Ukolova as Matilda Ruben Karapetyan as Sarkisyan See also List of submissions to the 83rd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film List of Russian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film References External links 2010 films 2010 drama films 2010s historical drama films 2010s adventure drama films 2010s Russian-language films Russian historical drama films Russian adventure drama films Russian World War II films Films set in Siberia Films set in the 1940s Rail transport films Films directed by Alexei Uchitel Films scored by David Holmes (musician)