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A still from ‘Closely Watched Trains’, Jiří Menzel’s 1966 adaptation of Bohumil Hrabal’s comic World War II classic. The film won an Oscar for Best Foreign Film and put the Czech ‘New Wave’ on international radar screens. Pictured is a young ‘Miloš’ (Václav Neckář), the naive station guard.

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