Man on the Tracks (1957)

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/ 10
3 User Ratings
1h 21m
Running Time

January 17, 1957
Release Date

Man on the Tracks (1957)

6
/ 10
3 User Ratings
1h 21m
Running Time

January 17, 1957
Release Date

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Plot.

One night in 1950 a passenger train runs over a man, who turns out to be the veteran train engineer Władysław Orzechowski, knows for his old ways and stern demeanor. As the inquiry panel tries to deduce why would a man like Orzechowski jump in front of a moving train several of the people involved in the case are interrogated, each telling their own version of the story. 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?

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Details.

Release Date
January 17, 1957

Original Name
Człowiek na torze

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 21m

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Wiki.

Man 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 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.Historian Dorota Niemitz writes:

The devotion of the rail workers to their jobs is central to Man on the Tracks. There is no talk of low pay, the long hours or missing time with friends and family—all the railway men care about is doing their work well. Efficiency and competence are matters of honor, and the failure of a train to arrive on schedule is treated as a personal failure. Taking into account the pressures exerted by the Stalinist regime, these sentiments no doubt also reflect the genuine aspiration of wide layers of the Polish population after the horrors of the 1930s and 1940s to construct a new, more egalitarian society.”

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