Chinese Version
Ostre Sledovane Vlaky (Czechoslovakia)
Closely Watched Trains
comedies and tragedies at a village railway station
Director: Jirí Menzel
Cast: Václav Neckár Jitka Bendová
Footage: 89min
Year: 1966
Closely Watched Trains is a masterpiece of human observation and one of the best-loved films of the Czech New Wave.
That's a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia. The film nonetheless has a light-hearted tone seldom found in films set in so grim a time. The protagonist, a bumbling dispatcher's apprentice named Milos, 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. He undergoes several philosophical changes as he becomes attracted to the Czech underground. Determining at last that his own existence hardly matters in the scheme of things, Milos volunteers for a suicide mission.
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