Baltic Express (Polish: Pociąg), also known as Night Train or The Train, is a 1959 Polish film directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz and starring Zbigniew Cybulski, Lucyna Winnicka and Leon Niemczyk. 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. Also on board is Marta’s spurned lover Staszek (Zbigniew Cybulski), unwilling to accept her decision to break up with him after a short love affair and leave her alone. When the police enter the train in search of a murderer on the lam, rumours start to fly and everything seems to point toward one of the main characters as the culprit.

With music by Andrzej Trzaskowski, Baltic Express is a powerful psychological story of loneliness and an intriguing thriller in one. The film 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.

The screening is part of the public programme of exhibition I came here to be alone – I also came here to be alone, on view at Tallinn Art Hall Gallery until 6 November. Before the screening, a 30-minute introduction will be held by the participating artists Alyona Movko Mägi, Johannes Luik, Maarja Tõnisson, Junny Yeung and Madara Gruntmane.

The screening is organised in collaboration with Tallinn Art Hall