Night Train (1959) ( Pociag ) ( Baltic Express )

Night Train (1959) (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Pociag
Alternate Title: Baltic Express
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Venice Film Festival

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Polish ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
94 min + 7 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Documentary
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White
Booklet
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1959 and produced in:
Poland ( Russia, Eastern Europe )

Directed By:
Jerzy Kawalerowicz

Written By:
Jerzy Kawalerowicz
Jerzy Lutowski

Actors:
Lucyna Winnicka ..... Marta
Leon Niemczyk ..... Jerzy
Teresa Szmigielówna ..... Lawyer's Wife
Zbigniew Cybulski ..... Staszek
Helena Dabrowska ..... Train Controller
Ignacy Machowski ..... Passenger
Roland Glowacki ..... Murderer
Aleksander Sewruk ..... Lawyer
Zygmunt Zintel ..... Passenger Suffering from Insomnia
Tadeusz Gwiazdowski ..... Train Controller
Witold Skaruch ..... Priest
Michal Gazda ..... Passenger Flirting with Lawyer's Wife
Zygmunt Malawski ..... Policeman
Józef Lodynski ..... Plain-Clothes Policeman
Kazimierz Wilamowski ..... Passenger Sleeping in the Train Controller's Car

Synopsis:

Kawalerowicz's celebrated film is considered one of the finest achievements of Polish cinema. Employing a classic Hitchcockian premise - two people, one possibly a killer on the run, sharing a compartment on a crowded overnight train - Kawalerowicz turns a thriller into an intriguing character study of ordinary people in unusual circumstances. Featuring impressive performances from Lucyna Winnicka (Mother Joan of the Angels), Zbigniew Cybulski (the 'Polish James Dean') and Leon Niemczyk (Knife in the Water), Night Train is more than simply a thriller... taut and gripping but also suffused with humour and warmth and boasting a wonderful jazz score by renowned composer Andrzej Trzaskowski.

A man, Jerzy, enters a train set for the Baltic coast. He seems to be on the run from something. He has to share sleeping-compartment with a woman who also seems to be on the run. Eventually we get to know that the police are looking for an escaped murderer. Is it really Jerzy they are looking for?

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 01 October, 2013.

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