Larks on a String

– Set in the late 1940s, the film concerns the treatment of suspect "bourgeois elements", a professor,..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
7.60 / 10
Duration:
One Hour and 34 Minutes
Release Year:
1990
Original Name:
Skřivánci na niti
Larks on a String (1990) - Also known as Skřivánci na niti

Set in the late 1940s, the film concerns the treatment of suspect "bourgeois elements", a professor, a saxophonist, and a milkman, who are put to work in a junkyard for rehabilitation.

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Release Date:

01 Feb 1990

Language:

Czech

Director:

Jirí Menzel

Writer:

Bohumil Hrabal (novel), Jirí Menzel

Main Actors:

Rudolf Hrusínský, Vlastimil Brodský, Václav Neckár, Jitka Zelenohorská

Plot:

Prague in the early 1950's. Bourgeois elements are being re-educated by working in a scrapyard full of the detritus of industrial society. The volunteer workers comprise a professor of literature, a public prosecutor, a dairyman, a saxophonist, a barber, and a young cook. Also working in the yard are a number of female prisoners serving a year for trying to defect... A camera crew arrives with potted plants and other props. An idyllic scene is created; the prisoners star briefly in a pro-North Korean newsreel before going back to work... The volunteers are striking because the scrapyard work quotas have risen without consultation. A union rep arrives to persuade them otherwise... The guard for the female prisoners gets married but the gypsy musicians make a mess at his reception. The cook flirts with one of the pretty prisoners and finally proposes...

Awards:

3 wins.

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
7.6/10