Night Train

Night Train

1959 · 97 min · PL · 7.5 (74 votes)
Dir. Jerzy Kawalerowicz · Starring Lucyna Winnicka, Leon Niemczyk, Teresa Szmigielówna, Zbigniew Cybulski, Helena Dąbrowska, Ignacy Machowski · Music Andrzej Trzaskowski
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Two strangers, Jerzy and Marta, accidentally end up holding tickets for the same sleeping chamber on an overnight train to the Baltic Sea coast. Also on board is Marta's spurned lover, who will not leave her alone. When the police enter the train in search of a murderer on the lam, rumors fly and everything seems to point toward one of the main characters as the culprit.

VIBE

A suffocating, paranoid atmosphere builds aboard a train where everyone is a suspect. The air crackles with unspoken desires and simmering dread as a killer lurks among the passengers, turning every glance into a potential threat.

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