Love on schedule

Movie
German title	Love on schedule
Original title	Ostře sledované vlaky
Country of production	Czechoslovakia
original language	Czech , German
Publishing year	1966
length	92 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Jiří Menzel
script	Bohumil Hrabal , Jiří Menzel
production	Zdeněk Oves
music	Jiří Šust
camera	Jaromír Šofr
cut	Jiřina Lukešová
occupation
Václav Neckář : Miloš Hrma Jitka Bendová : train conductor Máša Vladimír Valenta : station master Libuše Havelková : wife of the station master Josef Somr : Hubička dispatcher Alois Vachek : Station clerk Novak Jitka Zelenohorská : Zdenička Svatá Vlastimil Brodský : Council Zedníček Ferdinand Krůta : Uncle Noneman Květa Fialová : Countess Naďa Urbánková : Viktoria Freie Jiří Menzel : Dr. Brabec Pavel Landovský : thief Jiří Kodet : SS man

Love according to the timetable (original title: Ostře sledované vlaky , German TV title: Sharply observed trains ) is a Czechoslovak film comedy from 1966, which was directed by Jiří Menzel . The film was produced in the Barrandov film studios in Prague and the location was Loděnice train station .

The film is based on Bohumil Hrabal's story Journey according to special regulations, the movement of trains monitored ( Ostře sledované vlaky ) . It is about an adolescent who works at a train station during the German occupation in World War II .

action

Location: the train station in Loděnice

The story takes place in a tiny train station somewhere in German-occupied Bohemia during World War II. Together with the station master, who breeds rabbits and pigeons, and the dispatcher Hubička, who has nothing but women in mind, the young Hrma does his job as a train station trainee. Hrma is still very clumsy and shy. Every woman embarrasses him greatly. That is why he admires Hubička's self-assured demeanor. When the boy is taken to an uncle by the conductress Máša and is supposed to spend the night there with her, he fails completely. After a suicide attempt and psychiatric treatment, Hrma slowly finds herself. A shepherdess with a resistance fighter strengthens his self-confidence so much that he blows up a German ammunition train, killing him.

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The film won various international awards

• The Oscar for best foreign film in 1968.
• The British Film Awards for Best Picture and Best Score (1969)
• The Grand Prize at the Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival (1966)

Reviews

"An excellently staged and well-acted comedy."

- Lexicon of international film

“A brilliantly staged comedy, the jokes of which, however, are a bit too one-sided in the sexual field, without achieving the intended confrontation between profanity and tragedy. For adults. "

- Protestant film observer

literature

• Bohumil Hrabal : Travel according to special regulations, train movement monitored. Story (original title: Ostře sledované vlaky ). German by Franz Peter Künzel . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1994, 88 pages, ISBN 3-518-22157-4 ; as audio book : read by Ulrich Matthes , (2 CDs) audio book, Freiburg im Breisgau 2005, ISBN 978-3-89964-110-3 .

Web links

• Watched Trains in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Source: Evangelischer Filmbeobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 460/1966, pp. 837–838
2. ↑ Love according to the timetable. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .