Larks on a String
Jiří MenzelWhere to watch in the United States: Rent: Amazon Video · Buy: Amazon Video. Streaming data from JustWatch via TMDB; availability changes.
Cast
Rudolf Hrušínský 
Václav Neckář 
Jitka Zelenohorská
Credits
Written by: 
Bohumil Hrabal
Plot
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.
Sinekatalog’s take
Jiří Menzel's comedy sends political prisoners to a scrapyard where love and humour persist, a film banned for twenty years. Warm, funny and bittersweet, it is a defiant Czech New Wave gem.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Awards
- Berlin International Film Festival 1990: Best Film (Golden Bear)
Ratings
IMDb: 7.3 / 10 (2,438 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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