RAIL YARD BLUES

A provincial railway station, not far from Pilsen, in the languid midday heat. Trains occasionally arrive and depart, or pass through without stopping. The staff drink coffee and beer, talk about their holiday plans, kill time by having (or gossiping about) love affairs, by avoiding altercations with the feared station supervisor. This tragicomic debut is about average men and women, about their hopes, desires and wishes, narrated against the backdrop of a place that is literally on the sidelines. No world-shaking events – just everyday, apparently unspectacular, life. But the latter has much to offer – love, for instance, as well as treachery, forgiveness, faith, death and resurrection. German premiere.