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Man on the Tracks

6.8 81 mins Drama   Mystery   1957
Zespół Filmowy Kadr  
Director(s): Andrzej Munk

Release Date: 17 Thu, Jan 1957

One night in 1950 a passenger train runs over a man, who turns out to be the veteran train engineer Władysław Orzechowski, knows for his old ways and stern demeanor. As the inquiry panel tries to deduce why would a man like Orzechowski jump in front of a moving train several of the people involved in the case are interrogated, each telling their own version of the story. 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?

Casts of Man on the Tracks

Kazimierz Opaliński

as Władysław Orzechowski

Zygmunt Zintel

as Witold Sałata

Zygmunt Listkiewicz

as Stanisław Zapora

Roman Kłosowski

as Marek Nowak

Kazimierz Fabisiak

as Konarski

Stanisław Marecki

as Party Secretary

Józef Para

as Railwayman

Celina Klimczak

as Zofia Sałata

Natalia Szymańska

as Orzechowski's wife

Józef Nowak

as Jankowski

Eugenia Herman

as Train Passenger (uncredited)

Roman Hubczenko

as Sleeping Railwayman (uncredited)

Józef Kalita

as Conductor chasing Zapora (uncredited)

Zygmunt Malawski

as Conductor (uncredited)

Dobrosław Mater

as Train Passenger (uncredited)

Leon Niemczyk

as Man doing Business at a Train Platform (uncredited)

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