Larks on a String (1990)
In post-WWII Communist Czechoslovakia, several characters considered bourgeois are sentenced to work in a junkyard for rehabilitation. Among them is a young man who pines for a female convict.
Top billed cast
Rudolf HrušínskýTrustee
Václav NeckářPavel Hvezdár
Jitka ZelenohorskáJitka
Vlastimil BrodskýProfessor
Vladimír PtáčekMlíkar- Ferdinand KrůtaKudla
František ŘehákDrobecek
Leoš SuchařípaPublic Prosecutor- Eugen JegorovSaxophonist
Naďa UrbánkováLenka
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