Transsiberian is a thriller film by Brad Anderson, which premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival on January 18, 2008. Written by Anderson and Will Conroy, the film stars Ben Kingsley, Woody Harrelson, Eduardo Noriega, Emily Mortimer, Thomas Kretschmann, and Kate Mara. The film is set on the Trans-Siberian Railway, a railroad that runs from China to Moscow. It was shot starting in December 2006, in Vilnius, Lithuania, with additional photography in Beijing and Russia.
"Transsiberian" is a handsomely remodeled variation of a cherished genre you might call the mystery-train movie. Updated by the director Brad Anderson ("The Machinist"), who wrote the screenplay with Will Conroy, it skillfully manipula more