Jiří Menzel's feature debut, one of the most famous and successful Czech films of the 1960s at home and abroad, tells the story of the short life of the railway elf Miloš Hrma in a tragicomic position. He enters his first service at the sleepy provincial railway station during the World War II, but great historical events are completely overshadowed by his somewhat delicate problem with persistent panic, all the more undesirable because the handsome conductor Máša thinks of him very much ... Miloš looks like naive and so manifests itself, it seems to fit perfectly into the gallery of the distinctive staff of the railway station, which is intensively devoted to its private interests, ranging from growing pigeons to stamping the buttocks of a telephone operator during a joint night service. It does not seem that anyone is interested in war and politics, and Miloš's worries are similar to the anecdotes that the well-known donchuan Hubička especially enjoys. The audience also has fun, and after Miloš's failed suicide attempt surprises them for a while, everything indicates that they will laugh until the end. But fate cannot be escaped even at a forgotten train station, Miloš experiences seconds of intoxicating happiness, grows into a man and then becomes a tragic hero.

Bohumil Hrabal's novella was also published in Mongolian by Tagtaa in 2019, and can be purchased here: http://www.sale.mirnom.mn/b/23406.