Larks on a String

Larks on a String
Directed byJiří Menzel
Written byJiří Menzel, based on the novel by Bohumil Hrabal
CinematographyJaromír Šofr
Music byJiří Šust
Distributed byIFEX (US theatrical)
Release dates
  • 1990 (1990) (Czech Republic)
  • 13 February 1991 (1991-02-13) (New York City only)
Running time
96 minutes
CountryCzechoslovakia
LanguageCzech

Larks on a String (Czech: Skřivánci na niti) is a 1969 Czech film directed by Jiří Menzel. The film was banned by the Czechoslovak government, but was later released in 1990 after the fall of the Communist regime. It tells the stories of various characters considered bourgeois by Czechoslovakia's communist government in the 1950s, who have been forced to work in a junkyard for the purposes of re-education. It won the Golden Bear at the 40th Berlin International Film Festival.[1]

  1. ^ "Berlinale: 1990 Prize Winners". berlinale.de. Retrieved 2011-03-20.