The People from the Train

Name: The People from the Train
Director: Kazimierz Kutz
Genre: Drama, War
Released: 1961-05-11
Duration: 1 h 38 min
Rating: 6.3
Cast: Janina Traczykówna, Andrzej May, Małgorzata Dziedzic, Danuta Szaflarska, Maciej Damięcki

1961

1h 38m

Drama War

Director: Kazimierz Kutz

Writers: Marian Brandys, Ludwika Woźnicka

Overview

A group of people find themselves stuck in remote train station in German-occupied Poland. A drunk German station guard there gets paranoid and sees partisans all around him, phones headquarters, and when the German soldiers arrive and search the station they find a gun. They then threaten to execute every fifth person unless someone claims it.