The Tram to Heaven

Wincenty Ronisz, Krzysztof Zanussi
Poland 1958

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.

Credits

director: Wincenty Ronisz, Krzysztof Zanussi
screenplay: Wincenty Ronisz, Krzysztof Zanussi
cinematography: Jerzy Troszczyński, Paweł Żarnoch, Julian Pakuła
cast: Leszek Biskup, Witold Berezecki, Zdzisław Lewandowski, Jerzy Troszczyński, Leonard Zwoliński
production: AKF Warszawa
sales: Krzysztof Zanussi
awards: FSEA 1958 - Grand Prix
language: Polish