Closely Watched Trains

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Closely Watched Trains
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Directed by	Jiří Menzel
Produced by	Zdeněk Oves
Written by	Novel: Bohumil Hrabal Screenwriter: Jiří Menzel
Starring	Václav Neckář Jitka Bendová Josef Somr Vlastimil Brodský Vladimír Valenta
Music by	Jiří Šust
Cinematography	Jaromír Šofr
Editing by	Jiřina Lukešová
Distributed by	Ústřední půjčovna filmů
Release date(s)	November 18, 1966 October 15, 1967
Running time	92 min.
Country	Czechoslovakia
Language	Czech German
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Ostře Sledované Vlaky is a 1966 Czechoslovakian film directed by Jiří Menzel. It is released as Closely Watched Trains in North America and Closely Observed Trains in the UK. It was filmed in Barrandov Studios, Prague.

The film is based on a story by Bohumil Hrabal. It is a coming-of-age story about a boy working at a train station in German-occupied Czechoslovakia during World War II.

The film won several international awards:

The 1967 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
The 1969 BAFTA Awards for Best Film and Best Soundtrack
The Grand Prize at the 1966 Mannheim-Heidelberg International Filmfestival
A nomination for the 1969 DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures
A nomination for the 1968 Golden Globe for Best Foreign-Language Foreign Film

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Preceded by A Man and a Woman	Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film 1967	Succeeded by War and Peace

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