Story of movie Night Train 1959 Film :
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Night Train (also known as Baltic Express) is the English title for Poci?g, a 1959 film directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz.
| Night Train | |
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| Directed by | Jerzy Kawalerowicz |
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| Music by | Andrzej Trzaskowski |
| Cinematography | Jan Laskowski |
| Edited by | Wieslawa Otocka |
Production company | KADR |
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Running time | 93 minutes |
| Country | Poland |
| Language | Polish |
Screenplay
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. Also on board is Marta's spurned lover, who will not 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.
- Lucyna Winnicka - Marta
- Leon Niemczyk - Jerzy
- Teresa Szmigielówna - Lawyer's Wife
- Zbigniew Cybulski - Staszek
- Helena D?browska - Train Controller
- Ignacy Machowski - Passenger
- Roland G?owacki - Murderer
- Aleksander Sewruk - Lawyer
- Zygmunt Zintel - Passenger Suffering from Insomnia
- Tadeusz Gwiazdowski - Train Controller
- Witold Skaruch - Priest
- Micha? Gazda - Passenger Flirting with Lawyer's Wife
- Zygmunt Malawski - Policeman
The American remake of 2009, which went straight to video, was written and directed by Brian King and stars Danny Glover, Leelee Sobieski, and Steve Zahn.
- Cinema of Poland
- List of Polish language films
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