Alois Nebel (2011)

Directed by

Tomáš Luňák

Genre

drama film, animated film

Country

Slovakia, Czech Republic, Germany

Runtime

1h 25m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 41 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In the late 1980s, a train dispatcher in a remote mountain village starts having hallucinations that blend the present with the region's dark history after World War II. The black-and-white animated film follows his struggle as past and present collide.

atmosphericmelancholicdreamlikeunsettlingslow-burnbleakcerebralvisually stark

What happens

Alois Nebel is a 2011 adult animated neo-noir drama film directed by Tomáš Luňák, based on the comic-book trilogy by Jaroslav Rudiš and Jaromír 99. It is set in the late 1980s in a small village in the Jeseník Mountains, close to the Polish border, and tells the story of a train dispatcher who begins to suffer from hallucinations where the present converges with the dark past of the expulsion of Germans after World War II. The black-and-white film was animated mainly through rotoscoping and stars Miroslav Krobot as the title character. The film was selected as the Czech entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist. The film was submitted and won European Film Awards for Best Animated Film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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