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, ...
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Title: Czlowiek na torze (1957)
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| Complete credited cast: | |||
| Kazimierz Opalinski | ... | Wladyslaw Orzechowski | |
| Zygmunt Maciejewski | ... | Station-Master Tuszka | |
| Zygmunt Zintel | ... | Witold Salata | |
| Zygmunt Listkiewicz | ... | Stanislaw Zapora | |
| Roman Klosowski | ... | Marek Nowak | |
| Kazimierz Fabisiak | ... | Konarski | |
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Ludoslaw Kozlowski | ... | Karas |
| Janusz Bylczynski | ... | Warda | |
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Stanislaw Marecki | ... | (as Stanislaw Marzec-Marecki) |
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Józef Para | ... | Railwayman |
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Stanislaw Jaworski | ... | Franek |
| Celina Klimczakówna | ... | Zofia Salata (as Alina Klimczak) | |
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Natalia Szymanska | ... | Orzechowska |
| Józef Nowak | ... | Jankowski | |
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Janusz Paluszkiewicz | ... | Krokus |
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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? Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
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17 January 1957 (Poland) See more »Also Known As:
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In station-master's flashback that is said to take place 'before World War 2', he is a conductor on a steam locomotive Pt47 introduced in 1947. See more »Frequently Asked Questions
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As means of transport, trains have a certain mystical quality attached to them. This has a lot to do with the fact that whenever trains fail or succeed in carrying out their tasks of moving passengers from one place to another, it is not only them which fail or succeed as machines as the blame is attributed to a whole range of persons whose jobs are related to trains. It is precisely keeping this thing in mind that Polish director Andrzej Munk set out to direct "Czlowiek Na Torze", a film about the lives of Polish railway workers. His film questions the role of a dead railway worker who went much too far in the course of his job before after having been being fired by the authorities. This film was made possible with the help of Polish Railway employees who are shown to wisely tackle differences at work place. The film begins with a nicely shot sequence of a train driven by a steam engine. It is worth mentioning that the camera has been placed so meticulously that one could see the actual train chugging marvelously on the tracks. The film is replete with nicely shot scenes of this kind which capture each moment of what it is being in a situation related to trains.