Stand by · pulling the latest frames
Stand by · pulling the latest frames


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.
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“All it takes to make a man of a boy is a woman.”

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Josef Somr
Train dispatcher Hubicka
2003