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Night Train (1959 film)

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'Night Train' (Polish: 'Pocig'), also known as 'The Train', or 'Baltic Express', is a 1959 Polish film directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz and starring Zbigniew Cybulski, Lucyna Winnicka and Leon Niemczyk. 'Night Train' received numerous awards including the Georges Mlis award, and the Best Foreign Actress at the 1959 Venice Film Festival awarded to Lucyna Winnicka for her role as Marta in 'Night Train'.

Plot



Two strangers, Jerzy (Leon Niemczyk) and Marta (Lucyna Winnicka), accidentally end up holding tickets for the same sleeping chamber on an overnight train to the Baltic Sea coast; and reluctantly agree to share the 2-bed single-gender compartment. Also on board is Marta's spurned lover Staszek (Zbigniew Cybulski), unwilling to accept her decision to break up after a short term affair, and leave her alone. When the police enter the train in search of a murderer on the lam, rumors fly and everything seems to point toward one of the main characters as the culprit.

Cast



* Lucyna Winnicka - Marta

* Leon Niemczyk - Jerzy

* Zbigniew Cybulski - Staszek

* Teresa Szmigielwna - Lawyer's Wife

* Helena Dbrowska - Train Controller

* Ignacy Machowski - Passenger

* - Murderer

* Aleksander Sewruk - Lawyer

* Zygmunt Zintel - Passenger Suffering from Insomnia

* Tadeusz Gwiazdowski - Train Controller

* Witold Skaruch - Priest

* - Passenger Flirting with Lawyer's Wife

* - Policeman

See also



*Cinema of Poland

*List of Polish language films

References




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