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Dominican Rep. Larks on a String
- Original title
- Skrivánci na niti (Larks on a String)
- Year
- 1969
- Running time
- 94 min.
- Country
Czechoslovakia- Director
- Screenwriter
- Jiří Menzel. Novel: Bohumil Hrabal
- Cast
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- Václav Neckár
- Jitka Zelenohorská
Rudolf Hrusínsky- Jaroslav Satoransky
Vlastimil Brodsky- Ferdinand Kruta
- Frantisek Rehák
- Leos Sucharípa
- Vladimír Ptácek
- Evzen Jegorov
Vladimír Smeral- Tereze Galiová
Míla Myslíková- See all credits
- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Comedy. Drama
- Synopsis
- Prague in the early 1950's. Bourgeois elements are being re-educated by working in a scrapyard full of the detritus of industrial society. The volunteer workers comprise a professor of literature, a public prosecutor, a dairyman, a saxophonist, a barber, and a young cook. Also working in the yard are a number of female prisoners serving a year for trying to defect... A camera crew arrives with potted plants and other props. An idyllic scene is created; the prisoners star briefly in a pro-North Korean newsreel before going back to work... The volunteers are striking because the scrapyard work quotas have risen without consultation. A union rep arrives to persuade them otherwise... The guard for the female prisoners gets married but the gypsy musicians make a mess at his reception. The cook flirts with one of the pretty prisoners and finally proposes...
- Rankings Position
- Awards
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1990: Berlin Film Festival: Golden Bear, FIPRESCI (Honourable Mention)
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