Man on the Tracks (1957)
Man on the Tracks (1957)
Plot.
Where to Watch.
Cast & Crew.
Kazimierz Opaliński
Wladyslaw Orzechowski
Zygmunt Maciejewski
Station-Master Tuszka
Zygmunt Zintel
Witold Salata
Roman Kłosowski
Marek Nowak
Zygmunt Listkiewicz
Stanislaw Zapora
Andrzej Munk
Director
Kazimierz Fabisiak
Konarski
Jerzy Stefan Stawiński
Writer
Ludosław Kozłowski
Karaś
Romuald Kropat
Cinematographer
Janusz Bylczyński
Warda
Jerzy Wójcik
Cinematographer
Stanisław Marecki
Party Secretary
Jadwiga Zajiček
Editor
Józef Para
Railwayman
Stanisław Jaworski
Franek
Roman Mann
ProductionDesigner
Celina Klimczak
Zofia Sałata
Natalia Szymańska
Orzechowski's wife
Józef Nowak
Jankowski
Janusz Paluszkiewicz
Krokus
Eugenia Herman
Train Passenger (uncredited)
Roman Hubczenko
Sleeping Railwayman (uncredited)
Józef Kalita
Conductor chasing Zapora (uncredited)
Zygmunt Malawski
Conductor (uncredited)
Dobrosław Mater
Train Passenger (uncredited)
Leon Niemczyk
Man doing Business at a Train Platform (uncredited)
Halina Dobrowolska
Costume Design
Jakub Goldberg
Assistant Director
Paweł Komorowski
Assistant Director
Jan Laskowski
Camera Operator
Józef Bartczak
Sound
Media.
Details.
Release DateJanuary 17, 1957
Original NameCzłowiek na torze
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 21m
Genres
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.”