The Man Who Met the Trains
1989, German. Directed by Walter Heynowski & Gerhard Scheumann.
A top administrator in the Federal German armed forces measures the machinery of murder at Auschwitz according to the effiency principle, and deems it a triumph. Militaria dealers market all the components for a do-it-yourself SS officer. The film assembles on, piece by piece, from a price list: the complete Hauptsturmführer for 2,921 Deutschmarks, ready to meet the trains arriving at Auschwitz with the appropriate aluminium lurex armband at 45 Marks.
- Runtime
- 0h 12m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- German
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- Released
- 1 September 1989
- Original title
- Der Mann an der Rampe
- Country
- East Germany
- Written by
- Walter Heynowski, Gerhard Scheumann
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The Man Who Met the Trains runs 12 minutes (0h 12m).
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The Man Who Met the Trains isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 September 1989. (Checked 13 November 2026.)
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Who directed The Man Who Met the Trains?
The Man Who Met the Trains (1989) was directed by Walter Heynowski and Gerhard Scheumann and stars Gerhard Scheumann, Walter Niklaus.