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.
Cast
Rudolf Hrušínský as Trustee
Vlastimil Brodský as Professor
Václav Neckář as Pavel Hvezdár
Jitka Zelenohorská as Jitka
Jaroslav Satoranský as Guard Andel
Vladimír Šmeral as Minister
Ferdinand Krůta as Kudla
František Řehák as Drobecek
Leoš Suchařípa as Public prosecutor
Vladimír Ptáček as Mlíkar
Eugen Jegorov as Saxophonist (as Evžen Jegorov)
Naďa Urbánková as Lenka
Věra Křesadlová as Convict
Věra Ferbasová as Convict
Jiřina Štěpničková as Pavel's mother