Vlak dětství a naděje (The Train of Childhood and Expectation) is a Czechoslovak television series directed by Karel Kachyňa and first broadcast in 1989. It was filmed by the Chief Editorial Office of Czechoslovak Television for Children and Youth and in cooperation with the Chief Editorial Office of Dramatic Broadcasting at the Barrandov Studios. It stars Stanislav Zindulka, Žaneta Fuchsová and Helena Růžičková. The series is based on Věra Sládková's novel trilogy Malý muž a velká žena (Little Man and Big Woman), parts of which are The Last Train from Frývaldov (1974), The Regiments of Evil (1975) and The Child of a Freewoman (1982). Although the series was filmed in 1985, it was not broadcast until 1989 after a four-year censorship ban, thanks to political liberalization during Gorbachev's perestroika.