Larks on a String

Feb 1, 1990

1h 34m

★ 6.8

Overview

In post-WWII Communist Czechoslovakia, several characters considered bourgeois are sentenced to work in a junkyard for rehabilitation. Among them is a young man who pines for a female convict.

Genres

Drama

Romance

Comedy

Production Companies

Filmové studio Barrandov

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Cast

Trustee

Rudolf Hrušínský

Pavel Hvezdár

Václav Neckář

Jitka

Jitka Zelenohorská

Professor

Vlastimil Brodský

Mlíkar

Vladimír Ptáček

Kudla

Ferdinand Krůta

Drobecek

František Řehák

Public Prosecutor

Leoš Suchařípa

Saxophonist

Eugen Jegorov

Lenka

Naďa Urbánková

Convict

Věra Křesadlová

Guard Andel

Jaroslav Satoranský

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