Where to Watch Larks on a String (1969) in Australia

What it's about

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...

Cast and crew

Director

Jirí Menzel

Writer

Bohumil Hrabal, Jirí Menzel

Starring

Rudolf Hrusínský, Vlastimil Brodský, Václav Neckár

Details

Release date

Feb 1, 1990

Language

Czech

Country

Czechoslovakia

Awards

3 wins total

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