Jojo Rabbit
Comedy · War
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Film / 1966
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Directed by
Jiří Menzel
At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to liberate himself from his virginity. Oblivious to the war and the resistance that surrounds him, this young man embarks on a journey of sexual awakening and self-discovery, encountering a universe of frustration, eroticism, and adventure within his sleepy backwater depot.
The story
At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to liberate himself from his virginity. Oblivious to the war and the resistance that surrounds him, this young man embarks on a journey of sexual awakening and self-discovery, encountering a universe of frustration, eroticism, and adventure within his sleepy backwater depot.
Cast
Václav NeckářTrainee Milos Hrma
Jitka ScoffinConducteress Masa
Vladimír ValentaStationmaster Max
Libuše HavelkováMax's wife
Josef SomrTrain dispatcher Hubicka
Alois VachekNovak
Jitka ZelenohorskáZdenka
Vlastimil BrodskýCounselor Zednicek
Ferdinand KrůtaMasa's Uncle Noneman
Květa FialováThe countess
Naďa UrbánkováVictoria Freie
Jiří MenzelDr. Brabec
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Václav Fišer
Karel Hovorka
Jiří Kodet
František Husák
Jiří Hálek
Miloslav Homola
Pavla MaršálkováMutter
Milada JežkováZdenka's mother
Dagmar Zikánová
Bohumil Koška
Antonín Pražák
Václav Kotva
Emil Iserle
Ivan Sova
Vladimír Hrabánek
František Marek
Jana Hana Duffková
Milan Frkal
František Golyšev
Zuzana Minichová
Gustav Hrdlička
Vlasta Kahovcová
Mahulena Kulendíková
Pavel Landovský
František Novák
Vratislav Blažek
Zdeňka Tichá
Jaroslav Toms
Nora Tvrzská
Josef Vondráček
Miloň NovotnýPriest
Bohumil Cajthaml
Karel Paták
Josef AbrhámPriest (voice)
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