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Larks on a String (Czech: Skřivánci na niti) is a 1969 Czech film directed by Jiří Menzel. The film was banned by the Czechoslovak government, but was later released in 1990 after the fall of the Communist regime.
Skřivánci na niti (1969) EN - Larks on a String. Czech film directed by Jiří Menzel. The film was banned by the Czechoslovak government, but was later released in 1990 after the fall of the...
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Feb 1, 1990 · Shot in 1968, whilst Czechoslovakia enjoyed a brief moment of political liberalization, Larks on a String is a searing political satire from director Jiří Menzel and writer Bohumil Hrabal.
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Skřivánci na niti (Larks on a String), Jiří Menzel, Czechoslovakia 1969 Larks on a String takes place in the steelworks, where the communist totalitarian regime sent politically questionable...
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The Larks on a String are women prisoners who have received one-year prison sentences for attempting to escape from Czechoslovakia. They are working in a junk yard, where they can see a group of men working who are being "rehabilitated."
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Set in the 1950s, Larks on a String tells the story of bourgeois types (including a philosophy professor, a lawyer, a saxophonist, a dairyman and cook who is also a Seventh day Adventist) who have been forced to work in a Stalinist junkyard for 're-education' and attempt to flirt with the segregated women who also work among the rusted pipes ...
