The read
Critics rate it 14 points higher than audiences do.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7.6/10
Rotten Tomatoes90%
Critics rate it 14 points higher than audiences do.
278 audience votes
Key crew
- Jiří MenzelScreenplay
- Jiří MenzelDirector
- Jiří ŠustOriginal Music Composer
- Bohumil HrabalScreenplay
Cast
- Václav NeckářTrainee Milos Hrma
- Jitka ScoffinConducteress Masa
- Vladimír ValentaStationmaster Max
- Libuše HavelkováMax's wife
- Josef SomrTrain dispatcher Hubicka
- Alois VachekNovak
- Jitka ZelenohorskáZdenka
- Vlastimil BrodskýCounselor Zednicek
- Ferdinand KrůtaMasa's Uncle Noneman
- Květa FialováThe countess
- Naďa UrbánkováVictoria Freie
- Jiří MenzelDr. Brabec
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Themes
based on novel or bookworld war iicoming of agerailroadsexual awakeningczech new waveczech resistance