Night Train (1959 film)

Night Train (Polish: Pociąg), also known as The Train,[1] or Baltic Express,[2] 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 Méliès award, and the Best Foreign Actress at the 1959 Venice Film Festival awarded to Lucyna Winnicka for her role as Marta in Night Train.[3]

Night Train
Zbigniew Cybulski, Staszek
Directed byJerzy Kawalerowicz
Written by
  • Jerzy Kawalerowicz
  • Jerzy Lutowski
Starring
Music byAndrzej Trzaskowski
CinematographyJan Laskowski
Edited byWieslawa Otocka
Production
company
Release date
  • 6 September 1959 (1959-09-06) (Venice)
Running time
93 minutes
CountryPoland
LanguagePolish

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.[1]

Cast

See also

References
  1. Peter G. Baker (1959). Films and Filming. London: Hansom Books, Paperback. p. 31.
  2. John Wakeman (1987). World Film Directors: 1945-1985. H.W. Wilson. pp. 501, 503. ISBN 0824207637.
  3. Marek Haltof (2015). Historical Dictionary of Polish Cinema. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 110, 163, 260. ISBN 978-1442244726.
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