Summary In 1950, at night, a passenger train kills a man on the tracks. He is Orzechowski, an engineer since 1914. An inquiry immediately follows. Testimony takes the form of flashbacks. Tuszka, the station master, believes Orzechowski was a saboteur; at least one on the inquiry panel agrees. Zapora, the young engineer on the train that hit Orzechowski, gives more complicated testimony about the dead man - stiff-necked, proud, imperious, critical of Zapora and other younger workers. The signalman at the crossing where Orzechowski died also testifies. Can the panel arrive at the truth in a world where workers unite, inferior coal is a badge of honor, and the old order is suspect? View more details
Directed : Andrzej Munk
Written : Jerzy Stefan Stawinski Andrzej Munk
Stars : Zygmunt Listkiewicz Zygmunt Zintel Kazimierz Opalinski Zygmunt Maciejewski
Genres : Drama
Release date : Jan 16, 1957
Countries of origin : Poland
Language : Polish
Filming locations : Zdunska Wola, Lódzkie, Poland
Production companies : Zespol Filmowy "Kadr"
Summary In 1950, at night, a passenger train kills a man on the tracks. He is Orzechowski, an engineer since 1914. An inquiry immediately follows. Testimony takes the form of flashbacks. Tuszka, the station master, believes Orzechowski was a saboteur; at least one on the inquiry panel agrees. Zapora, the young engineer on the train that hit Orzechowski, gives more complicated testimony about the dead man - stiff-necked, proud, imperious, critical of Zapora and other younger workers. The signalman at the crossing where Orzechowski died also testifies. Can the panel arrive at the truth in a world where workers unite, inferior coal is a badge of honor, and the old order is suspect? View more details
Genres : Drama
Release date : Jan 16, 1957
Countries of origin : Poland
Language : Polish
Filming locations : Zdunska Wola, Lódzkie, Poland
Production companies : Zespol Filmowy "Kadr"