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Larks on a String

Larks on a String

6.9(43 votes)
1990
1h 34m
DramaRomanceComedy

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.

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Production

Companies:
Filmové studio Barrandov

Languages

Original:cs
Spoken:
Czech

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