'' Alois Nebel '' is a 2011 Czech animated drama film directed by Tomáš Luňák , based on the comic-book trilogy by Jaroslav Rudiš and Jaromír 99 . It is set in the late 1980s in a small village in the Jeseník Mountains , close to the Polish border , and tells the story of a train dispatcher who begins to suffer from hallucinations where the present converges with the dark past of the expulsion of Germans after World War II . The black-and-white film was animated mainly through rotoscoping and stars Miroslav Krobot as the title character . The film was selected as the Czech entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards , but it did not make the final shortlist . The film was submitted and won European Film Awards for Best animated movie
84th Academy Awards
84th Academy Awards
Alois Nebel