ALOIS NEBEL

Lonely train dispatcher, Alois Nebel, has disturbing hallucinations of central Europe’s past whenever a fog or snow descends on the station. Upon encountering a mute stranger, his dark past starts suddenly intersecting with Nebel’s visions.

This visually extraordinary animated ghost story from Czech director Tomáš Luňák rotoscopes the real world into a duochrome hallucination steeped in light and shadow. Delving into the doubts of a lonely train dispatcher after the Velvet Revolution, the film casts a melancholic, mesmerizing spell.