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Leaving March 1
Directed by Tomás Lunák | 97 mins | 2011
Based on the trilogy of Czech graphic novels by Jaroslav Rudis and Jaromir 99, this black-and-white rotoscoped animation (of live-action footage) follows a train dispatcher tormented by his past. Set in 1989 when Communism ended in the soon-to-be-former Czechoslovakia, it’s a melancholic voyage into a soul struggling to find peace and connection despite homelessness and the long reach of World War II traumas.
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