Larks on a String

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.

Cast

Rudolf Hrušínský

as Trustee

Václav Neckář

as Pavel Hvezdár

Jitka Zelenohorská

as Jitka

Vlastimil Brodský

as Professor

Vladimír Ptáček

as Mlíkar

Ferdinand Krůta

as Kudla

František Řehák

as Drobecek

Leoš Suchařípa

as Public Prosecutor

Eugen Jegorov

as Saxophonist

Naďa Urbánková

as Lenka

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