

Closely Watched Trains (1967)
- NR
- 06/17/1967 (US)
- Comedy, Drama, War
- 1h 33m
All it takes to make a man of a boy is a woman.
Overview
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.
Jiří Menzel
Screenplay, DirectorBohumil Hrabal
Novel, ScreenplayCast

Václav Neckář
Trainee Milos HrmaJitka Scoffin
Conducteress MasaVladimír Valenta
Stationmaster Max
Libuše Havelková
Max's wife
Josef Somr
Train dispatcher HubickaAlois Vachek
Novak
Jitka Zelenohorská
Zdenka