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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Infobox film<br />
| name = Larks on a String<br />
| image = Larks on a String.jpg<br />
| caption = <br />
| director = [[Jiří Menzel]]<br />
| producer = <br />
| writer = Jiří Menzel, based on the novel by [[Bohumil Hrabal]]<br />
| starring = <br />
| music = Jiří Šust<br />
| cinematography = Jaromír Šofr<br />
| distributor = [[International Film Exchange|IFEX]] (US theatrical)<br />
| released = {{Film date|1990|||Czech Republic|1991|02|13|[[New York City]] only|df=y}}<br />
| runtime = 96 minutes<br />
| country = Czechoslovakia<br />
| language = Czech<br />
| budget = <br />
}}<br />
'''''Larks on a String''''' ({{langx|cs|'''Skřivánci na niti'''}}) is a 1969 [[Czech Republic|Czech]] film directed by [[Jiří Menzel]]. The film was banned by the [[Czechoslovakia|Czechoslovak]] government, but was later released in 1990 after the fall of the [[Czechoslovak Socialist Republic|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 [[Wreck yard|junkyard]] for the purposes of re-education. It won the [[Golden Bear]] at the [[40th Berlin International Film Festival]].<ref name="Berlinale">{{cite web |url=http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1990/03_preistr_ger_1990/03_Preistraeger_1990.html |title=Berlinale: 1990 Prize Winners |accessdate=2011-03-20 |work=berlinale.de}}</ref><br />
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==Cast==<br />
* [[Rudolf Hrušínský]] as Trustee<br />
* [[Vlastimil Brodský]] as Professor<br />
* [[Václav Neckář]] as Pavel Hvezdár<br />
* [[Jitka Zelenohorská]] as Jitka<br />
* [[Jaroslav Satoranský]] as Guard Andel<br />
* [[Vladimír Šmeral]] as Minister<br />
* [[Ferdinand Krůta]] as Kudla<br />
* [[František Řehák]] as Drobecek<br />
* [[Leoš Suchařípa]] as Public prosecutor<br />
* [[Vladimír Ptáček (actor)|Vladimír Ptáček]] as Mlíkar<br />
* [[Eugen Jegorov]] as Saxophonist (as Evžen Jegorov)<br />
* [[Naďa Urbánková]] as Lenka<br />
* [[Věra Křesadlová]] as Convict<br />
* [[Věra Ferbasová]] as Convict<br />
* [[Jiřina Štěpničková]] as Pavel's mother<br />
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==References==<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* {{imdb title|0064994}}<br />
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{{Jiří Menzel}}<br />
{{Golden Bear 1980-1999}}<br />
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[[Category:1969 films]]<br />
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[[Category:Films based on works by Bohumil Hrabal]]<br />
[[Category:Films directed by Jiří Menzel]]<br />
[[Category:Golden Bear winners]]<br />
[[Category:Golden Kingfisher winners]]<br />
[[Category:Films critical of communism]]<br />
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[[Category:Czech-language comedy films]]<br />
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