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Man on the Tracks
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Wikipedia article
'Man on the Tracks' is a 1956 film by Andrzej Munk.
'Man on the Tracks' was one of the first films of the Polish Film School and as such influenced the whole generation of young directors who participated in the movement.Niemitz, 2014: Munk made several films that had a great impact on his contemporaries and continued to exert their influence on Polands artistic community far beyond the directors lifetime
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.Niemitz, 2014: Orzechowski (Kazimierz Opaliski)... is killed in a train accident and there are suspicions of sabotage. The film reconstructs the events through a series of flashbacks.
Historian Dorota Niemitz writes:
Cast
* Kazimierz Opaliski - Wadysaw Orzechowski
* Zygmunt Maciejewski - Tuszka
* Zygmunt Zintel - Witold Saata
* Zygmunt Listkiewicz - Stanisaw Zapora
* Roman Kosowski - Marek Nowak
* Janusz Bylczyski - Warda, member of the committee
* Jzef Para - railwayman
* Natalia Szymaska - wife of Orzechowski
* Jzef Nowak - helper of Orzechowski
* Janusz Paluszkiewicz - Krokus, a mechanic
* Leon Niemczyk - man on the platform
* Stanisaw Jaworski - Franek, a friend of Orzechowski
See also
* Cinema of Poland
* List of Polish-language films
Footnotes
Sources
*Niemitz, Dorota. 2014. 'The legacy of postwar Polish filmmaker Andrzej Munk.' World Socialist Web Site. 13 October, 2014. https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/10/13/munk-o13.html Retrieved 08 July, 2022.
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