Night train (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | night Train |
| Original title | Pociąg |
| Country of production | Poland |
| original language | Polish |
| Publishing year | 1959 |
| length | 97 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jerzy Kawalerowicz |
| script | Jerzy Kawalerowicz Jerzy Lutowski |
| production | ZRF Kadr, Warsaw |
| music | Wieslawa Otocka |
| camera | Jan Laskowski |
| occupation | |
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Nachtzug is a psychologizing, Polish drama from 1959 directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz .
action
Jerzy, a doctor, died during his first major operation. He wants to leave Lodz today and take the night train to see his wife on the Baltic Sea, to the Hel peninsula . The train is overcrowded and in his sleeping car he meets the pretty, blonde Marta, who is fleeing from her overly devoted lover, with whom she has just separated. She bought her ticket from a stranger at the train station and realized too late that this sleeping compartment was reserved for men only. Also on the train is Staszek, Marta's spurned lover, who simply doesn't want to let her go and urges his ex to come back to him.
The police join them at a stop as they are looking for a murderer on the run. Since nobody knows what this looks like, a climate of mistrust soon develops among travelers and everyone believes that it could be the other. The first thing that comes under suspicion is Jerzy, of all people, because he has got hold of the bed that the wanted perpetrator once reserved. Marta realizes that the murderer must be that stranger at the train station from whom she in turn bought the ticket for the sleeping place. This night is determined by the hunt for the culprit, in which several passengers also participate. When you arrive at your destination in the morning, the perpetrator has been arrested and Marta and Jerzy get out. Then everyone goes their own way.
Production notes
Night Train premiered on August 26, 1959, at the start of this year's 20th Venice Film Festival. In Germany, the strip started on September 14, 1962. Almost three months later, night trains could also be seen on GDR television.
Director Kawalerowicz was inspired for this story by a personal experience during a train ride.
Reviews
The International Film Lexicon found, “A psychological behavioral study with pessimistic undertones. Excellent staged and played. "
Paimann's film lists found that "more mood than plot" was offered, but the "characters were carefully and concisely embodied".
Reclam's film guide saw Nachtzug as a "psychological study".
The following can be read in Jerzy Kawalerowicz's biography in Kay Weniger's large personal dictionary of the film : “Above all, the films 'Night Train' and 'Mother Johanna von der Engeln', which were made in quick succession, cemented Kawalerowicz's reputation as one of the most interesting, innovative and formally most individual Polish directors be."
Movie book
- Jerzy Kawalerowicz: Mother Johanna von der Engeln. Night Train. 2 film texts . Translation by Peter Lachmann . Epilogue, Notes Theodor Kotulla . Munich: DTV, 1963
Web links
- Night Train in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ night train. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 27, 2017 .
- ↑ Night train in Paimann's film lists ( memento of the original from August 27, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Reclams Filmführer, by Dieter Krusche, collaboration: Jürgen Labenski. P. 472. Stuttgart 1973.
- ↑ Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 4: H - L. Botho Höfer - Richard Lester. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 325.
