Night Train

+ intro with Professor Philip Horne, hosted by Kazuo Ishiguro

Pociąg

Jerzy Kawalerowicz’s richly cinematic gem is one of the creative highlights of an extraordinary era of Polish cinema.

  • Director

    Jerzy Kawalerowicz

  • With

    Lucyna Winnicka, Leon Niemczyk, Zbigniew Cybulski

  • Poland 1959. 99min

  • Digital

  • Certificate

    PG

  • English subtitles

This New Wave-ish Polish gem was internationally lauded on release, but is now largely forgotten. Suspicion spreads among the passengers of an overnight train to a seaside resort with the rumour that a murderer on the run is somewhere on board. Kawalerowicz compellingly captures the forced intimacies and claustrophobia on the train until the thrilling final act bursts onto a wider canvas with an unforgettable sequence that probes the atavistic depths of human crowd behaviour.

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