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Original title: Ostře sledované vlaky
Director: Jiří Menzel
Cast: Josef Somr Vlastimil Brodský Václav Neckář Jiří Menzel Pavel Landovský Milada Ježková
Genre: Comedy Drama
Premiere: November 18, 1966
Running time: 92 min
Country: Czechoslovakia

Closely Watched Trains (Czech: Ostře sledované vlaky) is a 1966 Czechoslovak coming-of-age comedy film. Directed by Jiří Menzel, it is one of the best-known films of the Czechoslovak New Wave. It was released in the United Kingdom as Closely Observed Trains. It is a story about a young man working at a train station in German-occupied Czechoslovakia during World War II. The film is based on a 1965 novella by Bohumil Hrabal. It was produced by Barrandov Studios and filmed on location in Central Bohemia. Released outside Czechoslovakia during 1967, it received widespread acclaim and won the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 40th Academy Awards in 1968. Nowadays the movie is assessed as one of the finest works of the Czech New Cinema.

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Closely Watched Trains is a movie (1966) from Czechoslovakia. Genre: comedy, drama. Directed by Jiří Menzel. Starring Josef Somr, Vlastimil Brodský, Václav Neckář, Jiří Menzel and Pavel Landovský. Running time: 92 min. Rating: 9.0/10.

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