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Closely Watched Trains is a tchecoslovaque film of genre Drama directed by Jiří Menzel with Václav Neckář

Closely Watched Trains (1966)

Ostře sledované vlaky

Closely Watched Trains
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Length 1h32
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Genres Drama,    War,    Comedy,    Comedy-drama
Rating75% 3.7967353.7967353.7967353.7967353.796735

Closely Watched Trains (Czech: Ostře sledované vlaky) is a 1966 Czechoslovak film directed by Jiří Menzel, and one of the best-known products of the Czechoslovak New Wave. It was released in the United Kingdom as Closely Observed Trains. It is a coming-of-age story about a young man working at a train station in German-occupied Czechoslovakia during World War II. The film is based on a 1965 novel by Bohumil Hrabal. It was produced by Barrandov Studios and filmed on location in Central Bohemia. Released outside Czechoslovakia during 1967, it won the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 40th Academy Awards in 1968.

Synopsis

The young Miloš Hrma, who speaks with misplaced pride of his family of misfits and malingerers, is engaged as a newly trained station guard in a small railway station during the Second World War and the German occupation of Czechoslovakia. He admires himself in his new uniform, and looks forward, like his prematurely-retired railwayman father, to avoiding real work. The sometimes pompous stationmaster is an enthusiastic pigeon-breeder with a kind wife, but is envious of the train dispatcher Hubička's success with women. Miloš holds an as-yet platonic love for the pretty young conductor Máša. The experienced Hubička presses for details of their relationship and realizes that Miloš is still a virgin.

Actors

Václav Neckář

(Trainee Milos Hrma)
Vlastimil Brodský

(Counselor Zednicek)
Josef Somr

(train dispatcher Hubička)
Jiří Menzel

(Dr. Brabec)
Jiří Kodet
Josef Abrhám

(Priest (voice))
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