Film Screening: Closely Watched Trains December 9, 2008

(OSTRE SLEDOVANÉ VLAKY, Jirí Menzel, Czechoslovakia 1966, 93 min., Czech/subtitles)

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, he embarks on a journey of sexual awakening and self-discovery, encountering a universe of frustration, eroticism, and adventure within his sleepy backwater depot. Wry and tender, Closely Watched Trains won the Oscar® for Foreign Language Film. Preceded by TERMINUS (John Schlesinger, UK 1961, 33 min.)

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