Following the films about the pub environment, recreation camps and mud-covered housing areas, Václav Táborský chose the train station as his next place for observing people. It is a place where, with his typical associations and verbal exaggerations in the intertitles, he gives an almost allegorical meaning to the parallels of human life.
People of different ages and with various types of luggage rush to the station. There they struggle with the miniature writing of the timetables or demand information at the counters. In addition to tickets, some buy snacks, newspapers, or cigarettes at the station. Then they rush to the platform or, on the contrary, they still wait, half-asleep, inside the train station. Those who wait for their train will have to make their way through crowded platforms and wagons. Some try to get on the train as soon as possible, others say a long goodbye on the platform to their companions. Eventually, all the passengers find their seats, the driver checks the train, and the train departs.
Orchestr Ferdinanda Havlíka (Music Conducted by Ferdinand Havlík), Ferdinand Havlík
Nádraží
Nádraží
Train Station
film
documentarytheatrical distribution
feuilleton
Czechoslovakia
1964
1964
projection approval 1964
premiere 1965 /suitable for youths/
no caption
short film
8 min
227 meters
16mm, 35mm
1:1,37
black & white
sound
mono
Czech
without dialogue
without subtitles
Czech
