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Directed by | Jerzy Kawalerowicz |
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Cinematography | Jan Laskowski |
Edited by | Wieslawa Otocka |
Music by | Andrzej Trzaskowski |
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Running time | 93 minutes |
Country | Poland |
Language | Polish |
Night Train (Polish: Pociąg), also known as The Train,[1] or Baltic Express,[2] is a 1959 Polish film directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz and starring Zbigniew Cybulski, Lucyna Winnicka and Leon Niemczyk.
Night Train received numerous awards including the Georges Méliès award, and the Best Foreign Actress at the 1959 Venice Film Festival awarded to Lucyna Winnicka for her role as Marta in Night Train.[3] American filmmaker Martin Scorsese recognized the film as one of the masterpieces of Polish cinema and in 2013 he selected it for screening alongside films such as Ashes and Diamonds, Innocent Sorcerers, Knife in the Water and The Promised Land in the United States, Canada and United Kingdom as part of the Martin Scorsese Presents: Masterpieces of Polish Cinema festival of Polish films.[4]