Man on the Tracks

1957    81m
7.6100%67%
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?
Directed By
Andrzej Munk
Written By
Andrzej Munk
Studio
Zespół Filmowy Kadr

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Cast of Man on the Tracks
  • Kazimierz OpalińskiWładysław Orzechowski
  • Zygmunt MaciejewskiTuszka
  • Zygmunt ZintelWitold Sałata
  • Zygmunt ListkiewiczStanisław Zapora
  • Roman KłosowskiMarek Nowak
  • Kazimierz FabisiakKonarski
  • Ludosław KozłowskiKaraś
  • Janusz BylczyńskiWarda
  • Stanisław MareckiParty Secretary
  • Józef ParaRailwayman
  • Stanisław JaworskiFranek
  • Celina KlimczakZofia Sałata
  • Natalia SzymańskaOrzechowski's wife
  • Józef NowakJankowski
  • Janusz PaluszkiewiczKrokus
  • Eugenia HermanTrain Passenger (uncredited)
  • Roman HubczenkoSleeping Railwayman (uncredited)
  • Józef KalitaConductor chasing Zapora (uncredited)
  • Zygmunt MalawskiConductor (uncredited)
  • Dobrosław MaterTrain Passenger (uncredited)
  • Leon NiemczykMan doing Business at a Train Platform (uncredited)
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