Man on the Tracks

Man on the Tracks (Polish: Człowiek na torze) is a 1956 film by Andrzej Munk.

Man on the Tracks
Directed byAndrzej Munk
Written byAndrzej Munk
Jerzy Stefan Stawiński
StarringKazimierz Opaliński
Zygmunt Maciejewski
CinematographyRomuald Kropat
Jerzy Wójcik
Distributed byKADR
Release date
1957
Running time
89 minutes
CountryPoland
LanguagePolish

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.[1]

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.[2]

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.”[3]

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Footnotes
  1. 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”
  2. 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.”
  3. Niemitz, 2014

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