Shadow
- Original title
- Cien (Shadow)
- Year
- 1956
- Running time
- 98 min.
- Country
- Poland
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Zygmunt Kestowicz
- Adolf Chronicki
- Emil Karewicz
- Ignacy Machowski
- Tadeusz Jurasz
- Boleslaw Plotnicki
- Bohdan Ejmont
- Marian Lacz
- Zdzislaw Szymanski
- Halina Przybylska
- Antoni Jurasz
- Wieslaw Golas
- Barbara Polomska
- Stanislaw Mikulski
- Roman Klosowski
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- Music
- Cinematography
Jerzy Lipman (B&W)- Producer
- Genre
- Drama. Action. Thriller | Trains / Subways
- Synopsis
- The plot consists of a Rashōmon-like investigation into the life of a man found dead after having been hurled from a train. As security agents, policemen and a medical examiner begin to piece together his identity, three accounts emerge: one set during World War II, one in the immediate aftermath of the war and one in contemporary Poland. In each, the victim seems to have been a mysterious, ambiguous presence, of shifting loyalties and suspicious connections, who invariably set himself against the ruling powers of the time. Critics of the day attacked the film for its depiction of a world rife with secret agents and hidden enemies - a favorite Stalinist theme - yet the film seems rather to insist on how heroism or villainy are so often matters of point of view and timing.
- Awards
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1956: BAFTA Awards: Nominated for Best Film
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