“Train” by Jerzy Kawalerowicz at Kinoteka! We invite you to a screening as part of the TOP 10 Polish Cinema review according to the editorial team of the Pełna Sala portal. 🎟️ Tickets for the screening with a lecture on 16.09 at 18:30 can be found at the link below: https://kinoteka.pl/film/pociag-top-10-polskiego-kina/ By chance, a woman and a man are accommodated in the same sleeping compartment. Marta (L. Winnicka) is experiencing a romantic drama, pursued by her hysterical, younger lover, Staszek (Z. Cybulski). Jerzy (L. Niemczyk), a doctor, tries to keep his cool, although his patient unexpectedly died on the operating table just recently. Neither of them is looking for company, but the night journey fosters a sense of closeness. The train carries a crowd of passengers to the seaside. Unexpectedly, everyone is electrified by the news of an escaped murderer and the suspicion that he might be among the passengers of this very train. Mutual social observations intertwine with the desire to unmask the murderer. The passengers of this train are contemporary people, imbued with post-war anxiety, yet simultaneously longing for normalcy. Jerzy Kawalerowicz, the director, brought a modern style and contemporary issues to the Polish School. The director combined and elevated the conventions of melodrama and thriller, imbuing more than one couple on the train with a sense of romantic unfulfillment, while leaving the criminal thread unresolved, as the answer lay in wartime trauma. The film train departed from Łódź Kaliska station, interior shots were made at the studio in Łódź, and the final stop was in Hel at Chałupy. “Train” ranked 8th in the TOP 10 Polish Cinema list according to the Pełna Sala editorial team. Michał Konarski wrote about the film on the portal: Based on the principle of three unities, the story is about a group of characters traveling on a train from Warsaw to Hel. Time: afternoon transitioning into night, place: several carriages filled to the brim with people, action: a single-threaded sequence of events engaging a full spectrum of characters – from the pair of protagonists, through the conductor staff, to random passengers affected by the situation. The first hour is spent by Kawalerowicz and Lutowski developing the psychology of the drama’s participants. The criminal thread – the motif of being trapped onboard with a person suspected of murder, known at least since “Murder on the Orient Express” – is introduced only in the last thirty minutes, serving both as the climax and the moment of shifting the drama’s focus from a few individuals to all the characters. Attempts to frame the plot of “Train” – whether as a melodrama, psychological cinema, or crime story – seem to have reached a reasonable consensus, acknowledging that the fragmented mosaic of 1950s Poland among the characters is an example of genre juggling and the excellent mastery of film material by the author of “The True End of the Great War.” The leisurely told story of a night full of impressions, twists, intrigues, and confessions takes the issue of randomness as its central theme from the very beginning – the characters emerging from the crowd are introduced only when they enter the carriage, without knowing who they are or the purpose of their journey. The aura of mystery over this spectacle of ambiguities, misunderstandings, and regrets is spread by the phenomenal compositions of Andrzej Trzaskowski, and the truly masterful cinematography of Jan Laskowski, which frames the depicted world in geometric shots, allowing the symbolism contained in the script to resonate. Pełna Sala is a film portal operating since 2017, created by cinema enthusiasts who regularly report on the most important festivals in Poland and worldwide, including Cannes, Toronto, Berlin, Venice, and Rotterdam. Since 2023, the editorial team has been running a Film Discussion Club at Warsaw’s Kinoteka and Kraków’s Mikro cinema, with meetings also held during festivals such as New Horizons, Five Flavors, and Timeless Film Festival. The site publishes reviews of premieres and series, analyses of classics, podcasts, and extensive festival reports, with a particular emphasis on supporting legal culture and smaller initiatives. The portal has sponsored many film events, and its editors have often served on the juries of festivals and film awards in Poland and Europe. More about the TOP 100 best Polish films in history according to the editors of the Pełna Sala portal can be read here: https://pelnasala.pl/polski-top-100/ Organizers: - Kinoteka PKiN - Pełna Sala Partners: - Association of Studio Cinemas - National Film Archive - Audiovisual Institute
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