Larks on a String

Larks on a String

Directed by	Jiří Menzel
Written by	Jiří Menzel, based on the novel by Bohumil Hrabal
Music by	Jiří Šust
Cinematography	Jaromír Šofr
Distributed by	IFEX (US theatrical) Fox Lorber (US VHS) Second Run DVD 2011(UK DVD)
Release dates	1990 (Czech Republic) 13 February 1991 (New York City only)
Running time	96 minutes
Country	Czechoslovakia
Language	Czech

Larks on a String (Czech: Skřivánci na niti) is a 1969 Czech film directed by Jiří Menzel. The movie 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.^[1]

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

References

↑ "Berlinale: 1990 Prize Winners". berlinale.de. Retrieved 2011-03-20.

External links

Larks on a String at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Jiří Menzel

"The Death of Mr Balthazar" in Pearls of the Deep
Closely Watched Trains
Crime in a Music Hall
Capricious Summer
Larks on a String
Who Looks for Gold?
Seclusion Near a Forest
Those Wonderful Movie Cranks
Cutting It Short
The Snowdrop Festival
Chocolate Cop
My Sweet Little Village
End of Old Times
Beggar's Opera
Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin
I Served the King of England
The Don Juans

Golden Bear-winning films

Four in a Jeep (1951)
Without Leaving an Address (1951)
In Beaver Valley (1951)
Justice Is Done (1951)
Cinderella (1951)
One Summer of Happiness (1952)
The Wages of Fear (1953)
Hobson's Choice (1954)
Die Ratten (1955)
Invitation to the Dance (1956)
12 Angry Men (1957)
Wild Strawberries (1958)
Les Cousins (1959)
El Lazarillo de Tormes (1960)
La Notte (1961)
A Kind of Loving (1962)
To Bed or Not to Bed (1963)
Bushido, Samurai Saga (1963)
Dry Summer (1964)
Alphaville (1965)
Cul-de-sac (1966)
The Departure (1967)
Who Saw Him Die? (1968)
Early Works (1969)
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1971)
The Canterbury Tales (1972)
Distant Thunder (1973)
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974)
Adoption (1975)
Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976)
The Ascent (1977)
Ascensor (1978)
Las truchas (1978)
What Max Said (1978)
David (1979)
Heartland (1980)
Palermo or Wolfsburg (1980)
Deprisa, Deprisa (1981)
Veronika Voss (1982)
Ascendancy (1983)
La colmena (1983)
Love Streams (1984)
The Woman and the Stranger (1985)
Wetherby (1985)
Stammheim (1986)
The Theme (1987)
Red Sorghum (1988)
Rain Man (1989)
Music Box (1990)
Larks on a String (1990)
The House of Smiles (1991)
Grand Canyon (1992)
Woman Sesame Oil Maker (1993)
The Wedding Banquet (1993)
In the Name of the Father (1994)
The Bait (1995)
Sense and Sensibility (1996)
The People vs. Larry Flynt (1997)
Central Station (1998)
The Thin Red Line (1999)
Magnolia (2000)
Intimacy (2001)
Spirited Away (2002)
Bloody Sunday (2002)
In This World (2003)
Head-On (2004)
U-Carmen eKhayelitsha (2005)
Grbavica (2006)
Tuya's Marriage (2007)
Elite Squad (2008)
The Milk of Sorrow (2009)
Honey (2010)
A Separation (2011)
Caesar Must Die (2012)
Child's Pose (2013)
Black Coal, Thin Ice (2014)
Taxi (2015)
Fire at Sea (2016)

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