- HD 1080
- Runtime: 93m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: cs
- Country: Czechoslovakia
- Director: Jiří Menzel
- Stars: Václav Neckář, Jitka Scoffin, Vladimír Valenta, Libuše Havelková, Josef Somr
- keywords: based on novel or book, world war ii, coming of age, railroad, sexual awakening, czech new wave, czech resistance
- Production_studio: Filmové studio Barrandov
- Slogan: All it takes to make a man of a boy is a woman.
- providers: Criterion Channel
- The Closely Watched Trains is featured in the top rankings of 1966
- #7 in Top Comedy Movies of 1966
- #28 in Top Drama Movies of 1966
- #7 in Top War Movies of 1966
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.