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International Series to Present Polish Thriller

JOPLIN, MO.

As part of the 44th annual International Film Festival the 1956 Polish political/psychological thriller Man on the Tracks will be shown at 7 p.m., Tuesday, April 11 in Cornell Auditorium in Matthews Hall on the campus of Missouri Southern State University.  

The film is free and open to the public.

Andrzej Munk's classic story of anti-Stalinism examines the mystery surrounding the death of a veteran train engineer who has lost his job through forced retirement. 

He is subsequently remembered, through flashbacks, by different characters who investigate his death and relate to their own interpretation in a manner recalling Citizen Kane and Rashomon.

In Man on the Tracks, the faces of the protagonists are often hidden by steam coming from the train engines. It is a world of paranoia and betrayal, of sabotage and denunciation, of political opportunists and their scapegoats. It's a chilling world. Munk's film asks: What happens to the human self in this environment?

The film won Munk the Best Director Award at the 1957 Karlovy Vary festival and the "Warsaw siren" Polish Film Critics Prize.

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Stephen Ernest Smith
Missouri Southern News Bureau Manager
Missouri Southern State University
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Joplin, MO, 64801-1595

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