Alois Nebel (2011): cast, story & where to watch

Released in 2011, Alois Nebel is a drama and animation film directed by Tomáš Luňák, running about 84 minutes.

What it’s about. A train dispatcher encounters a mute stranger who appears out of nowhere, and finds himself mysteriously involved with a murder in Poland. The end of the eighties in the twentieth century. Alois Nebel works as a dis­patcher at the small railway station in Bílý Potok, a remote village on the Czech–Polish border. He's 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, sees trains from the last hundred years pass through the station. They bring ghosts and shadows from the dark past of Central Eu­rope. Alois can’t get rid of these nightmares and eventually ends up in sanatorium. In the sanatorium, he gets to know The Mute, a man carrying an old photograph who was arrested by the police after crossing the border. No one knows why he came to Bílý Potok or who he’s looking for, but it is his past that propels Alois on his journey…

Who’s in it. Alois Nebel stars Miroslav Krobot as Alois Nebel (voice), Marie Ludvíková as Květa (voice), Karel Roden as Němý (voice) and Leoš Noha as Wachek (voice), among others.

How it landed. With an audience score of 6.7/10, Alois Nebel has drawn a solid, mixed-to-positive response.

Where to watch. In US you can stream it on OVID and rent or buy it from Amazon Video. See the full, country-by-country breakdown on our where to watch Alois Nebel page.

If you liked it. Fans of Alois Nebel tend to enjoy The Shawshank Redemption, The Godfather, Schindler's List and The Godfather Part II.