The People from the Train

Drama, War

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Kazimierz Kutz

Status Released

Release Date 1961-05-11

Storyline

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.