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Man on the Tracks is a film of genre Drama directed by Andrzej Munk with Kazimierz Opaliński
Man on the Tracks (1957)
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Add to a movie listMan on the Tracks (Polish: Człowiek na torze) is a 1956 film by Andrzej Munk.
Man on the Tracks was one of the first films of the so-called Polish Film School and as such influenced the whole generation of young directors who participated in the movement.
The film tells the story, mostly in flashback, of a railway worker who is fired from his job for alleged sabotage of the Socialist methods of work.
Synopsis
En 1950, la nuit, un train de voyageurs tue un homme sur la voie. Il s’agit d’Orzechowski, ingénieur depuis 1914. Une enquête suit immédiatement. Le témoignage prend la forme de flash-back. Tuszka, le chef de la station, croit Orzechowski était un saboteur...Actors
Kazimierz Opaliński
(Władysław Orzechowski)
Roman Kłosowski
(Marek Nowak)
Leon Niemczyk
(Man doing Business at a Train Platform (uncredited))
Józef Nowak
(Jankowski)
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