Film · Drama, Comedy, War

Closely Watched Trains (1966)

All it takes to make a man of a boy is a woman.

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.

Director

Jiří Menzel

Writers

Jiří Menzel, Bohumil Hrabal, Ladislav Fikar

Country

XC

Language

Czech

Release date

November 18, 1966

Original title

Ostře sledované vlaky