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Forty years after his Oscar-winning Closely Watched Trains, Czech director Jiri Menzel again turns a Bohumil Hrabal novel set during World War II into a bubbly epic with a bitter undertaste. It's the year's funniest movie about a young guy falling in love with a Nazi babe.