Movie Name: Larks on a String Casting By: Rudolf HrusÃnský - Trustee Vlastimil Brodský - Professor Released: 13 February, 1991 Genre: Comedy Runtime: 96 mins Rating: Director(s): Jirà Menzel Producer(s): Karel Kochman Writer(s): Jirà Menzel, based on the novel by Bohumil Hrabal Distribution: IFEX (US theatrical); Fox Lorber (US VHS) U.S. Box Office: Country: Czechoslovakia Language: Czech
Movie Review
Larks on a String (Czech: Skřivánci na niti) is a 1990 Czechoslovakian film directed by Jirà Menzel. It tells the stories of various characters considered 'bourgeois' by the Czech government in the 1950s, and have been forced with work in a junkyard for the purposes of 're-education'. The movie was filmed in 1969, but was banned by the Czech government. It saw release in 1990 after the fall of the Communist regime.
