- Larks on a String
Infobox Film
name = Larks on a String
caption =
director =Jirí Menzel
producer =
writer = Jirí Menzel, based on the novel byBohumil Hrabal
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distributor = IFEX (US theatrical)Fox Lorber (US VHS)
released = flagicon|Czech Republic 1990
flagicon|USA13 February ,1991 (NYC only)
runtime = 96 min.
country =Czechoslovakia
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language = Czech
budget =
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imdb_id = 0064994"Larks on a String" ( _cs. Skřivánci na niti) is a 1990 Czech film directed by
Jirí Menzel . It tells the stories of various characters considered 'bourgeois ' by the Czech government in the 1950s, and have been forced with work in ajunkyard 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 theCommunist regime.###@@@KEY@@@###succession box
title=Golden Bear winner
years=1990
tied with "Music Box"
before="Rain Man "
after="La Casa del sorriso "
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