Train Station

director: Václav Táborský

original title: Nádraží

year: 1964

running time: 8 min.

synopsis

Life is a train ride – we choose where we’ll go and with whom, but we all finally end up in a tunnel. A humorous little sketch of people hanging around a train station answers the question of the meaning of human existence, which is just as significant as a hockey stick in the hands of a travelling old woman.

biography

Václav Táborský (born 1928), a Czech pioneer of cinéma vérité, made over eighty short films and almost fifty educational programmes. After August 1968, he emigrated to Canada, where he worked as an educator. His work is divided into satirical documentary features and feature films for children, including Escape in the Wind and Miraculous Puzzle.

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director:

Václav Táborský

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