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The Tram to Heaven

dir. Wincenty Ronisz, Krzysztof Zanussi / Poland 1958

subtitles: English

retrospective: Krzysztof Zanussi A Plane from Budapest, Anxiety, Attestation, Behind the Wall, Camouflage, Cement and Words, Face to Face, Family Life, Girl and Uhlan, Hipothesis, Holden, Illumination, Imperative, In Full Gallop, Inventory, Krzysztof Zanussi – Essential Conversations, Life As a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease, Long Conversation with a Bird, Mountains at Dusk, Persona non grata, Revisit, Spiral, Stop Thief, Students, The Balance, The Bluebeard, The Catamount Killing, The Constant Factor, The Contract, The Death of a Provincial, The Lady with the Ermine, The Lame Devil, The Power of Evil, The Role, The Roof, The Silent Touch, The Structure of Crystal, The Tram to Heaven, The Unapproachable, The Year of Quiet Sun, Time That Passed, Umbrella, Ways in the Night, Wherever You Are, With a Warm Heart, A Woman’s Business, Deceptive Charm Section index

Cast

Leszek Biskup, Witold Berezecki, Zdzisław Lewandowski, Jerzy Troszczyński, Leonard Zwoliński

Film description

This rarely presented amateur film is an ingenious allegory of human humiliation. It was a film about a simple little man, who thinks he's a tram - the director reminisce about the film - There were also some gentlemen in a goverment limousine and a fleeing partisian. Featuring Leszek Biskup a star of STS (Student's Theatre of Satire). (…) Some political instructor played the role of a grim man, getting out of a Volga or Pobeda.