CLOSELY OBSERVED TRAINS

Closely Watched Trains is a 1966 Czechoslovak film directed by Jiří Menzel and is one of the best-known products of the Czechoslovak New Wave. It is a coming-of-age 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 novel by Bohumil Hrabal.