CLOSELY OBSERVED TRAINS, feb 28

Film club transports you to Czechoslovakia in and around the Bohemian
train station of Lodenice. Set near the end of the second world war the
film is about Milos who works at the railway station, he is 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. .

CLOSELY OBSERVED TRAINS
Jiri Menzel


JIRI MENZEL  won an academy award in the category of best foreign film for
this film it was his first feature length film . The film is an adaptation
of a novel by Bohumil Hrabal . The director also acts in the film as
doctor brabec.