| Larks on a String | |
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| Directed by | Jiří Menzel |
| Written by | Jiří Menzel, based on the novel by Bohumil Hrabal |
| Cinematography | Jaromír Šofr |
| Music by | Jiří Šust |
| Distributed by | IFEX (US theatrical) |
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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 film was banned by the Czechoslovak government, but was later released 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]
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