Night Train (Polish: Pociąg), also known as The Train, or Baltic Express, is a 1959 Polish film directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz and starring Zbigniew Cybulski, Lucyna Winnicka and Leon Niemczyk. Night Train received numerous awards including the Georges Méliès award, and the Best Foreign Actress at the 1959 Venice Film Festival awarded to Lucyna Winnicka for her role as Marta in Night Train. Plot Two strangers, Jerzy (Leon Niemczyk) and Marta (Lucyna Winnicka), accidentally end up holding tickets for the same sleeping chamber on an overnight train to the Baltic Sea coast; and reluctantly agree to share the 2-bed single-gender compartment. Also on board is Marta's spurned lover Staszek (Zbigniew Cybulski), unwilling to accept her decision to break up after a short term affair, and 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. Cast Lucyna Winnicka - Marta Leon Niemczyk - Jerzy Zbigniew Cybulski - Staszek Teresa Szmigielówna - Lawyer's Wife Helena Dąbrowska - Train Controller Ignacy Machowski - Passenger - Murderer Aleksander Sewruk - Lawyer Zygmunt Zintel - Passenger Suffering from Insomnia Tadeusz Gwiazdowski - Train Controller Witold Skaruch - Priest - Passenger Flirting with Lawyer's Wife - Policeman See also Cinema of Poland List of Polish language films References External links 1959 films 1950s mystery films 1959 crime films Polish crime films Polish mystery films 1950s Polish-language films Films directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz Rail transport films