At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia a bumbling, shy young station guard attempts to lose his virginity in Jirí Menzel's brilliant and tender Comedy/ Drama. Winner of the 1968 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Closely Observed Trains is "a masterpiece of human observation and one of the best-loved films of the 1960's Czech New Wave."
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Closely Observed Trains
Tue
11
Aug
Tuesday, 11 August 2015 at 7.15pm
Czech season
- Second World War comedy...
- 1966
- Czechoslovakia
- B&W
- 93 mins.
Reaction index:
8
out of 10
Director:
Jirí Menzel
Screenplay:
Jirí Menzel, Bohumil Hrabal
Cast:
Václav Neckár, Jitka Bendova, Vladimir Valenta, Josef Somr, Libuse Havelkova and Vlastimil Brodský
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