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Alois Nebel (2011)

Alois Nebel (2011)

Drama Animation
Release Date: 2011, September 4
Directors: Tomáš Luňák
Countries: Czech Republic, Germany
Production: Universal Production Partners
Cast: Marek Pospíchal, Tomáš Dianiška, Karel Roden, Stanislav Majer, Thomas Zielinski, Lukáš Král, Jan Jankovský, Ondřej Malý, Ivan Trojan, Václav Neužil, Klára Melíšková, Miroslav Krobot

Overview:

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…

Keywords:

surrealism adult animation rotoscoping czechoslovakia electric shock therapy