Closely Watched Trains
Ostře sledované vlaky
1966
Academy Award for Best International Feature Film (formerly Best Foreign Language Film) — 40th Academy Awards
- Director:
- Jiří Menzel
- Studio:
- Barrandov Studios, Československý film
- Starring:
- Václav Neckář, Jitka Bendová, Josef Somr, Vlastimil Brodský, Vladimír Valenta
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Miloš Hrma, a young apprentice train dispatcher at a small station in German-occupied Czechoslovakia, is more preoccupied with losing his virginity to his girlfriend Máša and enduring his colleagues' teasing than with the war raging around him. His sexual anxieties and a botched suicide attempt play out alongside the station staff's petty rivalries, until a chance to strike a real blow against a German munitions train forces Miloš into an act of quiet, decisive courage. Jiří Menzel's bittersweet coming-of-age comedy turns wartime resistance into something achieved almost by accident, undercutting heroism with everyday awkwardness right up to its sudden final act.