Closely Watched Trains

(1966)

★ 7.2 IMDb · 276 votes

Genres: Comedy, Drama, War

Year: 1966

Runtime: 93 мин

Country: Czechoslovakia

Director: Jiří Menzel

Cast: Václav Neckář, Jitka Scoffin, Vladimír Valenta, Libuše Havelková, Josef Somr, Alois Vachek, Jitka Zelenohorská, Vlastimil Brodský, Ferdinand Krůta, Květa Fialová

Plot

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.