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Closely Watched Trains (DVD)

Vaclav Neckar (actor), Jitka Bendova (actor) and Jiri Menzel (director)
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Synopsis

The 1966 Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Film, "Closely Watched Trains" is a charming look at the life a young train conductor during the German occupation of Czechoslovakia. He is ineptly led into an erotic encounter with a beautiful girl and fails to perform. But this unlikely hero takes a stand when his village is threatened by the occupying German Army.

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Review

USA Today, 01/17/1992, p.3D, "...This is one of those magic instances where tragedy and wistful comedy mesh in a remarkably seamless whole..." -- 3 1/2 out of 4 stars

Total Film, 04/01/2004, p.130, "[T]his Oscar-winning black comedy is a real treat....Funny and subversive."

Los Angeles Times, 03/22/1991, p.F24, "...An understated tragicomedy....The characters are drawn with naturalistic humor....Menzel sets in motion an act of subversion that is matter-of-fact in its drama..."

Title Note

Has easy-view enhanced subtitles.

Presented by Carlo Ponti.

The films title comes from designation given the German munitions trains that traveled through Czechoslovakia during WWII.

Release Note

DVD Features:

Region 1
Keep Case
Pan & Scan - 1.33
RSDL
Additional Release Material:
Trailer - 1. U.S. Theatrical Trailer

Product Notes

A reflective, unprepossessing drama about the coming of age of an unambitious young man working as a train dispatcher during the Second World War. Very typical of the Czech New Wave's interest in innocents tragically caught in the crossfire of history. Academy Awards: Best Foreign Language Film.

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