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Menzel's first solo-directed film unfolds during World War II in a sleepy rural railway station in German-occupied Czechoslovakia. The stationmaster is too busy tending his geese and pigeons to be concerned with timetables. Milos, the station's newly-hired clerk and the film's protagonist, witnesses the tirless womanizing of the dispatcher and yearns to lose his virginity. In the film's ironic denouement, Milos' sexual initiation is finally achieved with an attractive resistance fighter, but the tentacles of war curtail his emerging manhood. Winner of an Oscar for Best Foreign Film. (Does not circulate)
Credits
- Directed by
- Jiří Menzel
- Written by
- Bohumil Hrabal, Jiří Menzel
- Cast
- Jiří Kodet, Vratislav Blažek, Jiří Menzel, Václav Neckář, Vlastimil Brodský, Josef Somr, Václav Kotva, Jitka Zelenohorská, Vlasta Kahovcová, František Husák, Pavel Landovský, Josef Abrhám, Květa Fialová, Milada Ježková, Vladimír Hrabánek, Jiří Hálek, Libuše Havelková, Miloň Novotný …
- Produced by
- Carlo Ponti
- Cinematography
- Jaromír Šofr
- Music
- Jiří Šust
- Edited by
- Jiřina Lukešová
Copyright
Copyright status (Wikidata): copyrighted
Complete catalog record
Menzel's first solo-directed film unfolds during World War II in a sleepy rural railway station in German-occupied Czechoslovakia. The stationmaster is too busy tending his geese and pigeons to be concerned with timetables. Milos, the station's newly-hired clerk and the film's protagonist, witnesses the tirless womanizing of the dispatcher and yearns to lose his virginity. In the film's ironic denouement, Milos' sexual initiation is finally achieved with an attractive resistance fighter, but the tentacles of war curtail his emerging manhood. Winner of an Oscar for Best Foreign Film. (Does not circulate)
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