Train Without a Timetable (1959)

Original title

Vlak bez voznog reda

Directed by

Veljko Bulajić

Genre

drama film, melodrama

Country

Yugoslavia

Runtime

2h 01m

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of people are forced to leave their ancestral homes and move to undeveloped farmland. The film follows their difficult interactions and adjustments to a new life.

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What happens

Train Without a Timetable (Serbo-Croatian: Vlak bez voznog reda) is a 1959 Yugoslav film directed by Veljko Bulajić. It was entered into the 1959 Cannes Film Festival. The film was also selected as the Yugoslav entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 32nd Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. The film was a complex drama dealing with the interactions among people who were forcefully leaving their ancestral homes in order to move to new, yet undeveloped farmland. His debut was a major success earning him four awards at the Yugoslav National Film Awards (now known as the Pula Film Festival), an award from the city of Zagreb and the best debut film award at the Cannes Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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