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93 min - Comedy | Drama | War - 18 November 1966 (Czechoslovakia)

An apprentice train dispatcher at a village station seeks his first sexual encounter and becomes despondent when he is unable to perform.

Director: Jirí Menzel
Writers: Bohumil Hrabal (novel), Bohumil Hrabal (screenplay)
Stars: Václav Neckár, Josef Somr, Vlastimil Brodský
Transcript
00:00Work makes a man of you, sex makes a man of you, and that was the one way of becoming
00:10a man he was most anxious to try.
00:13And he tried.
00:17And he tried.
00:21And he tried.
00:27And now, from the company that brought you Dear John, comes Closely Watched Trains.
00:58Closely Watched Trains, continued the New York Times, is superior and unique.
01:04It shows cinematic ingenuity, comic brilliance, and a charming and poignant comprehension
01:09of the psychology of sex.
01:18Life went on to say that the scene depicting the seduction of a girl telegrapher is surely
01:23one of the great comic erotic sequences in film history.
01:47Be sure to watch for Closely Watched Trains.
01:53See you next time.
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