Closely Watched Trains 1966  N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: Closely Observed Trains
Director: Jiri Menzel
Cast: Vaclav Neckar, Jitka Bendova, Vladimir Valenta, Libuse Havelkova, Josef Somr, Jiri Menzel, Vlastimil Brodsky, Alois Vachek, Ferdinand Kruta, Jitka Zelenohorska
Tragedy and comedy combine in this Academy Award-winning Best Foreign Film about the coming of age of a member of the Czech resistance movement during World War II.
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The Joke 1969 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Jaromil Jires
Cast: Josef Somr, Jaroslava Obermaierova, Jana Ditetova, Ludek Munzar, Evald Schorm, Vera Kresadlova, Jaromir Hanzlik, Jiri Cimnicky, Josef Hruby, Michal Pavlata
A young Czech (Josef Somr) is expelled from the Communist Party and jailed in the 1950s when a postcard he sent was intercepted and determined to be politically inappropriate. Upon his release from jail, revenge is on his mind.
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| 1. Closely Watched Trains (1966)
aka: Closely Observed Trains
2. The Joke (1969)
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