Alois Nebel

Alois Nebel is a 2011 Czech animated drama film directed by Tom Luk, based on the comicbook trilogy by Jaroslav Rudi and Jaromr 99. It is set in the late 1980s in a small village in the Jesenk Mountains, close to the Polish border, and tells the story of a train dispatcher who begins to suffer from hallucinations where the present converges with the dark past of the expulsion of Germans after World War II. The blackandwhite film was animated mainly through rotoscoping and stars Miroslav Krobot as the title character. The film was selected as the Czech entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist. The film was submitted and won European Film Awards for Best animated movie.

The film premiered out of competition at the 68th Venice International Film Festival onSeptember 2011. It was also screened at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival. is scheduled to be released in the Czech Republic onSeptember 2011 through Aerofilms.Kirk Honeycutt of The Hollywood Reporter called the animation a sheer wonder and the film a bracing experience for those who want animation to be more than 3D superheroics and anthropomorphic animal stories. He wrote that Ultimately, the film may delve into too much specific Czech history and central European psychology to travel beyond those territories to other than film festivals, but The glory of the film lies not in its story but rather in its atmosphere and imagery. ........

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