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…
Alois Nebel 2011
European Film Award for Best Animated Feature Film
Best Foreign Language Film category of the 84th Academy Awards 2012.
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.
Czech Republic's official submission to the Best Foreign Language Film category of the 84th Academy Awards 2012.
Original Czech release Blu Ray, DTS HD
16:9/1080p
Spoken language: Czech
Subtitles: English and Czech
Region B
Color: Black and White