Josef Somr

The great novelist Milan Kundera adapated his own novel for this tragi-comic story set against the backdrop of Stalinist repression in fifties Czechoslovakia

Meet the mischievous little creatures, unnoticed by humans, who feed on our socks and leave us with incomplete pairs as they set off for adventure.

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. Wry and tender, Academy Award–winning CLOSELY WATCHED TRAINS is a masterpiece of human observation and one of the best-loved films of the Czech New Wave.