Larks on a String

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. It saw release in 1990 after the fall of the Communist regime. It tells the stories of various characters considered bourgeois by Czechoslovakia's communist government in the 1950s, who have been forced to work in a junkyard for the purposes of re-education. It won the Golden Bear at the 40th Berlin International Film Festival.

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• Larks on a string 1968 pt 1 of 10 skrivanci na niti
• Cast
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Cast

Rudolf Hrušínský as Trustee

Vlastimil Brodský as Professor

Václav Neckář as Pavel Hvezdár

Jitka Zelenohorská as Jitka

Jaroslav Satoranský as Guard Andel

Vladimír Šmeral as Minister

Ferdinand Krůta as Kudla

František Řehák as Drobecek

Leoš Suchařípa as Public prosecutor

Vladimír Ptáček as Mlíkar

Eugen Jegorov as Saxophonist (as Evžen Jegorov)

Naďa Urbánková as Lenka

Věra Křesadlová as Convict

Věra Ferbasová as Convict

Jiřina Štěpničková as Pavel's mother