Larks on a String
Feb 01 1990
•2h 34m
•Drama, Romance, Comedy
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.
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Rudolf Hrušínský
Trustee
Václav Neckář
Pavel Hvezdár
Jitka Zelenohorská
Jitka
Vlastimil Brodský
Professor
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