---
title: 'Larks on a String (1990)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Jiří Menzel'
released: '1990-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 94
genres:
  - 'Comedy'
countries:
  - 'Czechoslovakia'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/larks-on-a-string-1990'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064994/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Larks on a String (1990)

1990 · 94 min · Comedy · Czechoslovakia

Original title: Skřivánci na niti

## Synopsis

Larks on a String 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.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Jiří Menzel](https://cinepixo.com/people/jiri-menzel)
- **Screenplay:** [Jiří Menzel](https://cinepixo.com/people/jiri-menzel), [Bohumil Hrabal](https://cinepixo.com/people/bohumil-hrabal)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Jiří Šust](https://cinepixo.com/people/jiri-sust)
- **Producer:** [Karel Kochman](https://cinepixo.com/people/karel-kochman)
- **Director of Photography:** [Jaromír Šofr](https://cinepixo.com/people/jaromir-sofr)
- **Editor:** [Jiřina Lukešová](https://cinepixo.com/people/jirina-lukesova)

## Cast

- [Rudolf Kalina](https://cinepixo.com/people/rudolf-kalina)
- [Míla Myslíková](https://cinepixo.com/people/mila-myslikova)
- [Věra Ferbasová](https://cinepixo.com/people/vera-ferbasova)
- [Rudolf Hrušínský](https://cinepixo.com/people/rudolf-hrusinsky)
- [Otakar Brousek, Sr.](https://cinepixo.com/people/otakar-brousek-sr)
- [Miroslav Saic](https://cinepixo.com/people/miroslav-saic)
- [Marie Benetková](https://cinepixo.com/people/marie-benetkova)
- [Helena Velenovská](https://cinepixo.com/people/helena-velenovska)
- [Bořivoj Fiala](https://cinepixo.com/people/borivoj-fiala)
- [Bohumil Koška](https://cinepixo.com/people/bohumil-koska)
- [Ferdinand Krůta](https://cinepixo.com/people/ferdinand-kruta)
- [Jitka Zelenohorská](https://cinepixo.com/people/jitka-zelenohorska)
- [Jan Teplý](https://cinepixo.com/people/jan-teply)
- [Zdeněk Svěrák](https://cinepixo.com/people/zdenek-sverak)
- [Jitka Molavcová](https://cinepixo.com/people/jitka-molavcova)

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/larks-on-a-string-1990
Film facts: Wikidata (Q2303863); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.