This is one of those movies that is so totally unpretentious and subtle, you're barely aware just how great it is.
It's the simple story of a young worker at a train station, during World War II when the Nazis are spreading like disease throughout Europe. Trains carrying Nazi officials and soldiers pass by the train station on a regular basis. While this is bad, it isn't the biggest problem. The kid's budding sexuality has begun to boil over, and he desperately searches for answers as to why he is turned on by seemingly mundane, non-sexual things (a goose being stuffed for dinner, a train whistle blowing, etc.).
He plays sidekick to an older station worker, who has no problem with the ladies at all. The famous scene in which he stamps a young female co-worker's bare buns is both funny and hypnotically erotic.
I won't give away the ending, but, while it certainly is something of a downer, there's an uplifting element to it as well, as our hero finally gets his priorities straight and truly becomes a man. This is a great little movie, well worth checking out.
It's the simple story of a young worker at a train station, during World War II when the Nazis are spreading like disease throughout Europe. Trains carrying Nazi officials and soldiers pass by the train station on a regular basis. While this is bad, it isn't the biggest problem. The kid's budding sexuality has begun to boil over, and he desperately searches for answers as to why he is turned on by seemingly mundane, non-sexual things (a goose being stuffed for dinner, a train whistle blowing, etc.).
He plays sidekick to an older station worker, who has no problem with the ladies at all. The famous scene in which he stamps a young female co-worker's bare buns is both funny and hypnotically erotic.
I won't give away the ending, but, while it certainly is something of a downer, there's an uplifting element to it as well, as our hero finally gets his priorities straight and truly becomes a man. This is a great little movie, well worth checking out.