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Closely Watched Trains

1966, Movie, NR, 89 mins

CLOSELY WATCHED TRAINS | CLOSELY OBSERVED TRAINS | OSTRE SLEDOVANE VLAKY
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The first feature from the 28-year-old Czech filmmaker Jiri Menzel is a comic, humanistic look at a teenage railway trainee, Milos (Vaclav Neckar), who is sent off to a desolate station in Bohemia during the German occupation of Czechoslovakia. Hidden away from much of the rest of the world, Milos and the very ordinary characters who pass through the station try to live as if they were not caught in the midst of a world war. Read the complete review for Closely Watched Trains
Celebrity Chef and TCM Guest Programmer Alton Brown joins Robert Osborne to introduce the Academy Award winning Closely Watched Trains, 1967.
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Posted: 8/1/2008
Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Film, Closely Watched Trains (1967) concerns the sexual misadventures of a young Czech railway worker.
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Posted: 8/1/2008
Year: 1966
Rated NR

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Cast
Vaclav Neckar: Trainee Milos Hrma
Jitka Bendova: Conductor Masa
Josef Somr: Train Dispatcher Hubicka
Vladimir Valenta: Stationmaster Max
Vlastimil Brodsky: Counselor Zednicek
Jiri Menzel: Dr. Brabek

 

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