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An intimate psychological study exploring the intimate emotional states of people spending the night in a shared compartment of a sleeper car. People going through a crisis meet in one compartment of a night express. After initial misunderstandings, a thread of sympathy appears between the characters. Feature film Production: Poland Year of production: 1959 Premiere: 1959. 06.09. Genre: Psychological film, Drama, Crime Directed by: Jerzy Kawalerowicz Cinematography: Jan Laskowski Cast: Lucyna Winnicka Marta Leon Niemczyk doctor Teresa Szmigielówna lawyer's wife Zbigniew Cybulski Staszek Helena Dąbrowska conductor Ignacy Machowski passenger in the sleeping car Roland Głowacki murderer Aleksander Sewruk lawyer Zygmunt Zintel passenger suffering from insomnia Tadeusz Gwiazdowski conductor Witold Skaruch priest Michał Gazda passenger dating lawyer's wife Zygmunt Malawski policeman Józef Łodyński policeman in civilian clothes Kazimierz Wilamowski passenger sleeping in the conductor's compartment Jerzy Zapiór boy fooling around Jerzy Ćwikliński passenger; uncredited Henryk Dudziński policeman; not in the subtitles Andrzej Herder sailor; not in the subtitles Barbara Horawianka doctor's wife; not in the subtitles Joanna Jóźwiakówna girl with a transistor; not in the subtitles Ludwik Kasendra passenger; not in the subtitles Janusz Majewski Janusz, the girl's boyfriend with a transistor; not in the subtitles Czesław Piaskowski passenger; not in the subtitles Klemens Roman canon priest; not in the subtitles Andrzej Ropski passenger; not in the subtitles Jadwiga Siennicka passenger hit by an escaping murderer; not in the subtitles Henryk Staszewski passenger; not in the subtitles Mieczysław Waśkowski passenger; not in the subtitles Locations: Łódź (Łódź Kaliska station), Katarzynów near Koluszki, Hel Peninsula -Kuźnica