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Closely Watched Trains
Directed by
Jiří Menzel
Not Rated
1967
1h 33m
Comedy
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7.6
90%
86%
7.2
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A young man follows his father's footsteps and joins the railway company, where he learns the job and has his first affair. Set in the country, during the German occupation.
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Cast of Closely Watched Trains
Václav Neckář
Trainee Milos Hrma
Jitka Scoffin
Conducteress Masa
Vladimír Valenta
Stationmaster Max
Libuše Havelková
Max's wife
Josef Somr
Train dispatcher Hubicka
Alois Vachek
Novak
Jitka Zelenohorská
Zdenka
Vlastimil Brodský
Counselor Zednicek
Ferdinand Krůta
Masa's Uncle Noneman
Květa Fialová
The countess
Naďa Urbánková
Victoria Freie
Jiří Menzel
Dr. Brabec / Director / Screenplay
Václav Fišer
Karel Hovorka
Jiří Kodet
František Husák
Jiří Hálek
Miloslav Homola
Pavla Maršálková
Mutter
Milada Ježková
Zdenka's mother
Closely Watched Trains Ratings & Reviews
Cinema Sight
Wesley Lovell
"Closely Watched Trains" is a Czechoslovakian treat that makes you long for a rebirth of that same spirit that made its films so great in the first place.
ianthomasmalone.com
Ian Thomas Malone
The great triumph of Closely Watched Trains is the film's subtle damnation of capitalism's desecration of the individual for the sake of productivity.
Harper's Magazine
Robert Kotlowitz
One of the most appealing movies of the year.
ColeSmithey.com
Cole Smithey
[VIDEO ESSAY] Jiř Menzel's 1966 masterwork of the Czechoslovakian New Wave captures the country's unique cultural identity via a subversive wartime story based on a novel by Bohumil Hrabal.
TheMovieReport.com
Michael Dequina
The absurdist fun resonates strongly in the memory.
Film and Felt
Gabe Leibowitz
An engaging, dry satire on the the pitfalls of laziness while doubling as a character study.
Antagony & Ecstasy
Tim Brayton
A note-perfect dissection of how male sexual solipsism and the world at large intersect.
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
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.
Video-Reviewmaster.com
Steve Crum
Fine, character driven drama directed by Menzel.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
Never letting one quite forget we're in German-occupied Czechoslovakia and bad things are bound to happen.
Combustible Celluloid
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Meznel's greatest work, and indeed the pinnacle of all Czech New Wave films.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
A quiet, charming, very, human film. It comes from Czechoslovakia and isn't pushy like those big American movies; it will not force its point of view on you, or sweep you up in a tide of emotion.
Old School Reviews
John A. Nesbit
Filmed in minimalist style, it's far more interesting visually than most cluttered and clunky modern Hollywood fare
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