The absurdist fun resonates strongly in the memory.
Closely Watched Trains (1966)
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Reviews Counted:14
Fresh:14
Rotten:0
Average Rating:7.7/10
Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: The 1966 Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Film, "Closely Watched Trains" is a charming look at the life a young train conductor during the German occupation of Czechoslovakia. He is ineptly... The 1966 Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Film, "Closely Watched Trains" is a charming look at the life a young train conductor during the German occupation of Czechoslovakia. He is ineptly led into an erotic encounter with a beautiful girl and fails to perform. But this unlikely hero takes a stand when his village is threatened by the occupying German Army. [More]
Starring: Vaclav Neckar, Jitka Bendova, Vladimir Valenta
Starring: Vaclav Neckar, Jitka Bendova, Vladimir Valenta
Director: Jiri Menzel
Director: Jiri Menzel
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Reviews for Closely Watched Trains
An engaging, dry satire on the the pitfalls of laziness while doubling as a character study.
A note-perfect dissection of how male sexual solipsism and the world at large intersect.
Menzel's lyrical tragicomedy, which won the foreign-language Oscar, marks the end of creative freedom; it could not have been made after the Russian invasion of 1968.
Never letting one quite forget we're in German-occupied Czechoslovakia and bad things are bound to happen.
Meznel's greatest work, and indeed the pinnacle of all Czech New Wave films.
Filmed in minimalist style, it's far more interesting visually than most cluttered and clunky modern Hollywood fare
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