At key point of Polish history – in 1956 – Andrzej Munk created feature film "Man on the Tracks", which, along with the "Channel" by Andrzej Wajda, became the starting point for the new movement in the cinema of People's Poland – the Polish Film School. "Man on the Tracks", based on the story "The Mystery of the Machinist Ozhekhovsky" by Jerzy Stefan Stawiński, was a landmark film, which, using the example of a story from the life of railway depot workers, managed to denounce Stalinism in the Polish art. It sweeps aside the idea of irreconcilable class struggle, ideas of accusation of the retrogrades and search for "pests", uncompromising division of characters into "progressives" and "revanchists."