Alois Nebel

Alois Nebel
Director
Tomáš Luňák
Country
Czech Republic, Germany, Slovakia
Year
2011
Genre
Animation, Fiction
Scriptwriters
Jaroslav Rudiš, Jaromír 99
Cast
Miroslav Krobot / Marie Ludvikova / Leos Noha / Karel Roden
Production
Negativ Film Productions / Česká televize / Pallas Film GmbH / Tobogang
http://negativ.cz/cz/

Storyline

It is the end of summer, 1989. Alois Nebel works as a train dispatcher at a small railway station in the Sudetenland, a mountainous region on the Czechoslovak border. He is 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, seeing ghosts and shadows from the dark past of this region where after World War II harsh revenge was exacted on the German population. Alois cannot get rid himself of these nightmares and with the help of the railway worker Wachek, who is eyeing Alois’ job, he eventually ends up in a mental health institute. There he gets to know The Mute, a mysterious man carrying an old photograph who was arrested by the police after crossing the border. Not even electroshocks would make him speak and the policemen are unable to find out why he came to the Sudetenland or who he was looking for. One day The Mute takes his chance and escapes into the woods. Alois gets better and leaves the institute...

Festivals & Academy awards and others

Venice Film Festival 2011
Out of Competition
Sitges Film Festival 2012
Anima't
San Sebastián International Film Festival 2013
Animatopia Section

European Film Awards (EFA) 2012
Best European Film Academy Animated Feature Film 2012

Releases

France (14 of March 2012)