Larks on a String
Summary: Set in the late 1940s, the film concerns the treatment of suspect "bourgeois elements", a professor, a saxophonist, and a milkman, who are put to work in a junkyard for rehabilitation.
Director:
Jirí Menzel
Runtime: 1 h 34 min
Production: Filmové studio Barrandov
Distributor: International Film Exchange (IFEX)
Country: Czechoslovakia
Language: Czech
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