Alois Nebel

Sep 29 2011 Not Rated 1h 24m
Animation, Drama

A train dispatcher encounters a mute stranger who appears out of nowhere, and finds himself mysteriously involved with a murder in Poland. The end of the eighties in the twentieth century. Alois Nebel works as a dis­patcher at the small railway station in Bílý Potok, a remote village on the Czech–Polish border. He's a loner, who prefers old timetables to people, and he finds the loneliness of the station tranquil – except when the fog rolls in. Then he hallucinates, sees trains from the last hundred years pass through the station. They bring ghosts and shadows from the dark past of Central Eu­rope. Alois can’t get rid of these nightmares and eventually ends up in sanatorium. In the sanatorium, he gets to know The Mute, a man carrying an old photograph who was arrested by the police after crossing the border. No one knows why he came to Bílý Potok or who he’s looking for, but it is his past that propels Alois on his journey…

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Plot

Set in 1989 at the end of the Communist era even as the Berlin Wall was falling, a humble train dispatcher who's lived all his life in a small hamlet on the Czech side of the Czech-Polish border has been tormented by disturbing dreams about what happened to his ethnic German babysitter at the end of WW II. At the same time, a strange man of few to no words (is he mute?) in his mid 40s, shows up in the small hamlet with an old photograph and an ax. Much ensues...

Written by

Jaroslav Rudis, Jaromír Svejdík

Directed by

Tomás Lunák

Cast

Miroslav Krobot, Marie Ludvíková, Karel Roden

Crew

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Production Countries

Czech Republic, Germany

Production Companies

Universal Production Partners

Languages

Ceský

Awards

4 wins & 7 nominations total

Trailers
ALOIS NEBEL by Tomáš Lunák - Trailer (HQ)
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