Year: 1969
Duration: 01:30:24
Directed by: Jirí Menzel
Actors: Rudolf Hrusínský, Vlastimil Brodský, Václav Neckár, Jitka Zelenohorská
Language: Czech (English subs)
Country: Czechoslovakia
Also known as: Skrivánci na niti, Alondras en el alambre, Larks on a Thread
Description: Steel mills in Kladno near Prague, 50s. On the vast of a junkyard scrap coexist “involuntary volunteers” – workers (former entrepreneurs, intellectuals and all those who made it possible for people’s regime through labor) and women convicted for attempting to illegally cross the border. Weekday “great era” filled with large and small events in which there is a place and absurd paradox, and black humor …
One of the most famous Czech directors deliberately took no-go film – extremely tough satire on the then communist regime. The film was released only in 1990 and received rave reviews from critics. Based on the novel by Bohumil Hraban. Prague early 50’s. The film Larks on a String is set in a labor camp. Motley crew of workers, among them a professor of literature, and the cook, and a few women prisoners discovers his solidarity after the two young people fall in love and decide to get married. They are getting ready for the wedding …
The film has lain on the shelf 20 years.
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