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All it takes to make a man of a boy is a woman.
19661h 33mNo ratings yet
- Drama
- Comedy
- War
Overview
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.
Keywords
- based on novel or book
- world war ii
- coming of age
- sexual awakening
- railroad
- czech new wave
- czech resistance
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- November 18, 1966
- Original language
- Czech
- Spoken languages
- Czech, German
- Countries
- Czechoslovakia
- Production
- Filmové studio Barrandov
- Cast
- Václav Neckář,Jitka Scoffin,Vladimír Valenta,Libuše Havelková,Josef Somr,Alois Vachek,Jitka Zelenohorská,Vlastimil Brodský,Ferdinand Krůta,Květa Fialováand 36 more
- Director
- Jiří Menzel
- Producer
- Bohumil Šmída
- Cinematography
- Jaromír Šofr
- Music
- Jiří Šust
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0060802