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All it takes to make a man of a boy is a woman.

• Rated 7.2 out of 10
• Movie
• 1966
• 1h 33m
• Comedy
• Drama
• War

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.

Director

Jiří Menzel

Starring

Václav Neckář, Jitka Scoffin, Vladimír Valenta, Libuše Havelková