Train without a Timetable

Train without a Timetable

1959 · 121 min · ★ 6.9 · Drama

The story about colonization of poor Dalmatian peasants to the fertile Pannonian plain shortly after WWII.

Directed by Veljko Bulajić · Written by Ivo Braut

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