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Closely Watched Trains (1966)
Directed by Jiří Menzel
Overview
At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to liberate himself from his virginity. Oblivious to the war and the resistance that surrounds him, this young man embarks on a journey of sexual awakening and self-discovery, encountering a universe of frustration, eroticism, and adventure within his sleepy backwater depot.
Length 93 minutes
Actors
Václav Neckář | Jitka Scoffin | Vladimír Valenta | Libuše Havelková | Josef Somr | Alois Vachek | Jitka Zelenohorská | Vlastimil Brodský | Ferdinand Krůta | Květa Fialová | Naďa Urbánková | Jiří Menzel | Václav Fišer | Karel Hovorka st. | Jiří Kodet | František Husák | Jiří Hálek | Miloslav Homola | Pavla Maršálková | Milada Ježková | Dagmar Zikánová | Bohumil Koska | Antonin Prazak | Václav Kotva | Emil Iserle | Ivan Sova | Vladimír Hrabánek | František Marek | Jana Hana Duffková | Milan Frkal | František Golyšev | Zuzana Minichová | Gustav Hrdlička | Vlasta Kahovcová | Mahulena Kulendíková | Pavel Landovský | František Novák | Vratislav Blažek | Zdeňka Tichá | Jaroslav Toms | Nora Tvrzská | Josef Vondráček | Milon Novotny | Bohumil Cajthaml | Karel Paták | Josef Abrhám