72SSIFF - 20/28 September 2024
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Ostre sledované vlaky

Jirí Menzel
Czechoslovakia
Synopsis

The action takes place during Second World War. A young man who works as a railway station employee worries more about his sexual shyness that about the war. After making love for the first time with a young Partisan girl, he blows up a German ammunition train. The film is a moving and funny portrayal of the transition form adolescence to virility. This film won the Oscar for the Best Foreign Film of 1967.

Director
Jirí Menzel (Czech Republic)
Running Time
92 m.
Country
Czechoslovakia
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