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Closely Watched Trains

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Closely Watched Trains
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NR,1hr 29min
Genres:
Comedy,Drama,War
Release:
1966
Director:
Jirí Menzel
Distributor:
Criterion
Starring:
Vaclav Neckar, Jitka Bendova, Vladimir Valenta  ...more
Synopsis: Czech director Jiri Menzel's Closely Watched Trains (Ostre sledovane vlaky) was the recipient of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1967. In the story, based on Bohumil Hrabal's novel of the same name, Vaclav Neckar plays a Czech railroad worker during the Nazi occupation. He undergoes several philosophical changes as he becomes attracted to the Czech underground. Determining at last that his own existence hardly matters in the scheme of things, Neckar volunteers for a suicide mission. ... Full Synopsis
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Richard Gilliam, AMG Review
Ostre sledované vlaky is a rarity -- a internationally acknowledged masterpiece made in a Communist-dominated country at the height of the Cold War. Set in Czechoslovakia during the Nazi occupation, the film nonetheless has a light-hearted tone seldom found in films set in so grim a time. The protagonist, a young railway worker named Milos (Vaclav Neckar), goes through many normal coming-of-age events ... Full Review
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Vaclav Neckar
Milos, a railroad worker
Jitka Bendova
Conductor Masa
Vladimir Valenta
Station Master Max
Libuse Havelkova
Max's wife
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