CZECH REPUBLIC · 1969

Larks on a String

Czech New Wave class struggle political repression communist ideology redemption and rehabilitation forbidden romance social ostracism

Synopsis

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.

Year1969

CountryCzech Republic

DirectorJiří Menzel

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