Man on the Tracks explained

Man on the Tracks
Director:	Andrzej Munk
Starring:	Kazimierz Opaliński Zygmunt Maciejewski
Cinematography:	Romuald Kropat Jerzy Wójcik
Distributor:	KADR
Runtime:	89 minutes
Country:	Poland
Language:	Polish

Man on the Tracks (Polish: Człowiek na torze) is a 1956 film by Andrzej Munk.^{[1] [2] [3]}

Summary

The film tells the story, mostly in flashback, of a railway worker who was fired from his job for alleged sabotage of the Socialist methods of work.^{[4] [5]}

Background

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.^[6]

Historian Dorota Niemitz writes:

Cast

• Kazimierz Opaliński - Władysław Orzechowski
• Zygmunt Maciejewski - Tuszka
• Zygmunt Zintel - Witold Sałata
• Zygmunt Listkiewicz - Stanisław Zapora
• Roman Kłosowski - Marek Nowak
• Janusz Bylczyński - Warda, member of the committee
• Józef Para - railwayman
• Natalia Szymańska - wife of Orzechowski
• Józef Nowak - helper of Orzechowski
• Janusz Paluszkiewicz - Krokus, a mechanic
• Leon Niemczyk - man on the platform
• Stanisław Jaworski - Franek, a friend of Orzechowski

See also

• Cinema of Poland
• List of Polish-language films

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.

Notes and References

1. https://mubi.com/en/us/films/man-on-the-tracks MUBI
2. https://www.filmaffinity.com/en/film587864.html FilmAffinity
3. https://www.facetsdvd.com/Man-on-the-Tracks-p/dv76234.htm Facets
4. Niemitz, 2014: “Orzechowski (Kazimierz Opaliński)... is killed in a train accident and there are suspicions of sabotage. The film reconstructs the events through a series of flashbacks.”
5. https://letterboxd.com/film/man-on-the-tracks/ Letterboxd
6. Niemitz, 2014: “Munk made several films that had a great impact on his contemporaries and continued to exert their influence on Poland’s artistic community far beyond the director’s lifetime”