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Larks on a String

6.919901h 34mMovieDramaRomanceComedy

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.

DirectorJiří Menzel
WritersJiří Menzel·Bohumil Hrabal
ProducerJaroslav Kučera

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Cast · Directed by Jiří Menzel

RHRudolf Hrušínský
Rudolf Hrušínský
Trustee
VNVáclav Neckář
Václav Neckář
Pavel Hvezdár
JZJitka Zelenohorská
Jitka Zelenohorská
Jitka
VBVlastimil Brodský
Vlastimil Brodský
Professor
VP
Vladimír Ptáček
Mlíkar
FK
Ferdinand Krůta
Kudla
FŘFrantišek Řehák
František Řehák
Drobecek
LSLeoš Suchařípa
Leoš Suchařípa
Public Prosecutor
EJEugen Jegorov
Eugen Jegorov
Saxophonist
NUNaďa Urbánková
Naďa Urbánková
Lenka
VKVěra Křesadlová
Věra Křesadlová
Convict
JSJaroslav Satoranský
Jaroslav Satoranský
Guard Andel

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