The Slowest Train (Russian: Самый медленный поезд) is a 1963 Soviet war film directed by Vladimir Krasnopolsky and Valeriy Uskov.
Attached to the train is a special carriage carrying a divisional printing press and Captain Sergeyev, a frontline correspondent.
Though initially expecting to travel alone, Sergeyev finds his carriage gradually filling with uninvited passengers: a wounded soldier with a young girl, a pregnant woman and her companion, two party officials, an actress, and others.
Only one passenger, an opportunistic smuggler who traveled from Siberia to profit in the frontline zone, is expelled for his greed.
Twenty years later, Sergeyev reunites with the grown Lena and brings her to the place where he first encountered her mother and witnessed her father's death.