Larks on a String
Time Out says
This satire was completed in 1969 and promptly banned by the authorities put in place in Czechoslovakia after the Soviet invasion of 1968. If it's easy to see why the apparatchiks weren't exactly chuffed with it, Menzel's still not the most hard-hitting of film-makers: here, as sundry bourgeois types are relocated to a '50s Stalinist factory workplace for 're-education', the focus is as much on their romantic misadventures with the women in the adjoining camp as it is on dissecting the harsh injustice of the system. For those who savour whimsy.
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Release details
Duration:
90 mins
Cast and crew
Director:
Jirí Menzel
Screenwriter:
Bohumil Hrabal, Jirí Menzel
Cast:
Rudolf Hrusinsky
Václav Neckar
Vladimir Brodsky
Leos Sucharipa
Jitka Zelenohorska
Nada Urbankova
Václav Neckar
Vladimir Brodsky
Leos Sucharipa
Jitka Zelenohorska
Nada Urbankova