Czech Film Center

Synopsis

The end of the 1980s. 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, seeing ghosts and shadows from the
dark past of Central Europe. Alois can’t seem to shake these
nightmares and eventually ends up in a sanatorium. There 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…
The feature film Alois Nebel is an adaptation of the graphic novel
of the same name written by Jaroslav Rudiš and Jaromír 99 which
combines animation and live-action.