- Country: Poland
- Genres: Drama
- Release: 1957-01-17
- Director: Andrzej Munk
- Writers: Andrzej Munk , Jerzy Stefan Stawinski
- Language: Polish
- Stars: Kazimierz Opalinski , Zygmunt Maciejewski , Zygmunt Zintel , Zygmunt Listkiewicz , Roman Klosowski , Kazimierz Fabisiak , Ludoslaw Kozlowski , Janusz Bylczynski , Stanislaw Marecki , Józef Para
- Runtime: 89 min
- Awards: 1 win & 1 nomination
- AKA: Ember a vágányon (Hungary) , Mies ratakiskoilla (Finland) , Ο άνθρωπος του τραίνου (Greece) , Чoвек на релсите (Bulgaria) , Człowiek na torze (Poland) , Man on the Tracks , Der Mann auf den Schienen (Germany) , Άνθρωπος στις ράγες (Greece) , Clovek na kol'ajách (Slovakia (Slovak Republic)) , Czlowiek na torze , Un homme sur la voie (France, French Republic) , Man on the Tracks (United States of America) , Человек на рельсах , Mannen på sporet (Norway) , Sangre sobre los rieles (Argentina) , Anthropos stis rages (Greece)
- Plot:
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?
- IMDB:tt0050282
Czlowiek na torze Cast · · · ALL
Andrzej Munk
Director
Kazimierz Opalinski
Władysław Orzechowski
Zygmunt Maciejewski
Tuszka
Zygmunt Zintel
Witold Sałata
Zygmunt Listkiewicz
Stanisław Zapora
Roman Klosowski
Marek Nowak
Kazimierz Fabisiak
Konarski
Janusz Bylczynski
Warda
Józef Para
Railwayman
Stanislaw Jaworski
Franek
Celina Klimczakówna
Zofia Sałata
Józef Nowak
Jankowski
Janusz Paluszkiewicz
Krokus
Eugenia Herman
Train Passenger (uncredited)
Józef Kalita
Conductor chasing Zapora (uncredited)
Zygmunt Malawski
Conductor (uncredited)
Leon Niemczyk
Man doing Business at a Train Platform (uncredited)