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Comedy, Drama, War
•- Runtime
- 93 mins
(223 votes)
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.
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.
Cast
- Václav Neckář
- Jitka Scoffin
- Vladimír Valenta
- Libuše Havelková
- Josef Somr
- Alois Vachek
- Jitka Zelenohorská
- Vlastimil Brodský
- Ferdinand Krůta
- Květa Fialová
- Naďa Urbánková
- Jiří Menzel
- Václav Fišer
- Karel Hovorka
- Jiří Kodet
- František Husák
- Jiří Hálek
- Miloslav Homola
- Pavla Maršálková
- Milada Ježková
- Dagmar Zikánová
- Bohumil Koška
- Antonín Pražák
- Václav Kotva
- Emil Iserle
- Ivan Sova
- Vladimír Hrabánek
- František Marek
- Jana Hana Duffková
- Milan Frkal
- František Golyšev
- Zuzana Minichová
- Gustav Hrdlička
- Vlasta Kahovcová
- Mahulena Kulendíková
- Pavel Landovský
- František Novák
- Vratislav Blažek
- Zdeňka Tichá
- Jaroslav Toms
- Nora Tvrzská
- Josef Vondráček
- Miloň Novotný
- Bohumil Cajthaml
- Karel Paták
- Josef Abrhám
Director
- Jiří Menzel
Producers
Screenwriter
- Jiří Menzel
- Bohumil Hrabal
