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All it takes to make a man of a boy is a woman.
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.
| Released | 18 Nov 1966 |
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| Genres | Drama, Comedy, War |
| Runtime | 1 hour, 33 minutes |
| Countries | Czechoslovakia |
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… the crushing story of a lazy young man in wartime. … There are no war heroes in the film, only ordinary nobodies whose passions and joys in life are ended brutally by war, without fanfare or a mention in history books. In the film, under the weight of history, human life is snuffed out as if it were a fly’s, and humanity is totally flattened.
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