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Summary: An apprentice train dispatcher at a village station seeks his first sexual encounter and becomes despondent when he is unable to perform.

Release Date: November 18, 1966

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Jirí Menzel

Writers: Bohumil Hrabal

Runtime: 1 h 32 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Filmové studio Barrandov

Distributor: Sigma III Corp., RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, Image Entertainment, The Criterion Collection

Country: Czechoslovakia

Language: Czech

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