Larks on a String is a 1990 Czech

Czech Republic

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 film directed by Jiří Menzel

Jirí Menzel

Jiří Menzel is a Czech film director, theatre director, actor, and screenwriter. His films often combine a humanistic view of the world with sarcasm and provocative cinematography...

. It tells the stories of various characters considered 'bourgeois' by the Czech government in the 1950s, and have been forced to work in a junkyard for the purposes of 're-education'. The movie was filmed in 1969, but was banned by the Czech

Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992...

 government. It saw release in 1990 after the fall of the Communist regime. It won the Golden Bear

Golden Bear

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 at the 40th Berlin International Film Festival

40th Berlin International Film Festival

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Cast

• Rudolf Hrusínský
  Rudolf Hrušínský
  Rudolf Hrušínský was an acclaimed Czech actor.-Biography:He was born in Nová Včelnice to Hermina Červičková and Rudolf Hrušinský . He was born, literally, back stage during a showing of the play Taneček panny Marinky...
  
   as Trustee
• Vlastimil Brodský
  Vlastimil Brodský
  Vlastimil Brodský was a respected Czech actor. He appeared in over 90 films, and is considered a key figure in the postwar development of Czech cinema....
  
   as Professor
• Václav Neckár as Pavel Hvezdár
• Jitka Zelenohorská as Jitka
• Jaroslav Satoranský
  Jaroslav Satoranský
  Jaroslav Satoranský is a Czech actor. He belongs to famous Czech stage players and also to film actors.- Biography :...
  
   as Guard Andel
• Vladimír Smeral
  Vladimír Šmeral
  Vladimír Šmeral was a Czech actor. He starred in the 1969/1970 film Witchhammer under director Otakar Vávra....
  
   as Minister
• Ferdinand Kruta as Kudla
• Frantisek Rehák as Drobecek
• Leos Sucharípa as Public prosecutor
• Vladimír Ptácek as Mlíkar
• Eugen Jegorov as Saxophonist (as Evzen Jegorov)
• Nada Urbánková as Lenka
• Vera Kresadlová as Convict
• Vera Ferbasová as Convict
• Jirina Stepnicková
  Jiřina Štěpničková
  Jiřina Štěpničková was a Czech actress. She starred in the 1969/1970 film Witchhammer under director Otakar Vávra. Actor Jiří Štěpnička is her son.-References:...
  
  as Pavel's mother