WARSAW, Jan. 8 1967

Zbigniew Cybulski, Poland’s most popular screen actor and the best known in the West, was killed today when he fell under a moving train at Wroclaw, in southwestern Poland

The 39-year-old star ran onto the station platform as the Warsaw Express was beginning to pull out

He scrambled for an open door but fell between two coaches


The rest is history

A newspaper cutting had been hidden

In a book of poetry

Rainer Maria Rilke
The New York Times


I happened to be on a railway station

Waiting for an express train

Which was a hour distant

The tracks were totally vacant

And were gleaming in the rain