Man on the Tracks
Man on the Tracks
Man on the Tracks
Man on the Tracks
Man on the Tracks
Man on the Tracks
Man on the Tracks

Man on the Tracks

Origin
Poland
Original name
Człowiek na torze
Movie genre
Entry
CZK 120
Venue's website
Length
78 min
Director
Andrzej Munk
Release
1956
Rating
80 %
Cast

Kazimierz Opaliński, Zygmunt Maciejewski, Zygmunt Zintel

In 1950, at night, a passenger train kills a man on the tracks. He is Orzechowski, an engineer since 1914. An inquiry immediately follows. Testimony takes the form of flashbacks. Tuszka, the station master, believes Orzechowski was a saboteur; at least one on the inquiry panel agrees. Zapora, the young engineer on the train that hit Orzechowski, gives more complicated testimony about the dead man - stiff-necked, proud, imperious, critical of Zapora and other younger workers. The signalman at the crossing where Orzechowski died also testifies. Can the panel arrive at the truth in a world where workers unite, inferior coal is a badge of honor, and the old order is suspect?

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