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Closely Watched Trains (Czech: Ostře Sledované Vlaky) is a 1966 Czechoslovakian New Wave coming-of-age comedy film directed by Jiří Menzel and is one of the ...
Jul 13, 2023 · At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher's apprentice longs to liberate himself from his virginity.
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Apr 11, 2007 · This is the Trailer to Closely Watched Trains taken from the Criterion DVD. "At a village railway ...
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Closely Watched Trains

1966 ‧ Comedy/War ‧ 1h 32m
7.6/10 · IMDb 3.9/5 · Letterboxd 90% · Rotten Tomatoes
In a small town still occupied by the Germans as World War II's tide is turning toward the Allies, apprentice train-watcher Milos (Václav Neckár) is oblivious to the war. Instead, he is obsessed with having his first sexual experience. Despite the...
Release date: October 15, 1967 (New York)
Director: Jiří Menzel
Story by: Bohumil Hrabal
Based on: Closely Watched Trains; 1965 novel; by Bohumil Hrabal

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An apprentice train dispatcher at a village station seeks his first sexual encounter and becomes despondent when he is unable to perform.
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"Closely Watched Trains" is Hrabal's post-war novella that describes the life of a young railroad apprentice, Miloš Hrma, living in Czechoslovakia in the last ...
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At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher's apprentice longs to liberate himself from his virginity.
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Apprentice train-watcher Milos (Václav Neckár) is oblivious to the war. Instead, he is obsessed with having his first sexual experience.
"Closely Watched Trains" is a quiet, charming, very, human film. It comes from Czechoslovakia and isn't pushy like those big American movies; it will not.
Wry and tender, Academy Award–winning CLOSELY WATCHED TRAINS is a masterpiece of human observation and one of the best-loved films of the Czech New Wave.