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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064994/
Torrent Description
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064994/
Directed by: Jirí Menzel            Actors: Rudolf Hrusínský, Vlastimil Brodský, Václav Neckár, Jitka Zelenohorská Language: Czech (English subs) Country: Czechoslovakia Also known as: Skrivánci na niti, Alondras en el alambre, Larks on a Thread Description: Steel mills in Kladno near Prague, 50s. On the vast of a junkyard scrap coexist "involuntary volunteers" - workers (former entrepreneurs, intellectuals and all those who made it possible for people's regime through labor) and women convicted for attempting to illegally cross the border. Weekday "great era" filled with large and small events in which there is a place and absurd paradox, and black humor ... One of the most famous Czech directors deliberately took no-go film - extremely tough satire on the then communist regime. The film was released only in 1990 and received rave reviews from critics. Based on the novel by Bohumil Hraban. Prague early 50's. The film Larks on a String is set in a labor camp. Motley crew of workers, among them a professor of literature, and the cook, and a few women prisoners discovers his solidarity after the two young people fall in love and decide to get married. They are getting ready for the wedding ... The film has lain on the shelf 20 years. “Storyline Prague in the early 1950's. Bourgeois elements are being re-educated by working in a scrapyard full of the detritus of industrial society. The volunteer workers comprise a professor of literature, a public prosecutor, a dairyman, a saxophonist, a barber, and a young cook. Also working in the yard are a number of female prisoners serving a year for trying to defect... A camera crew arrives with potted plants and other props. An idyllic scene is created; the prisoners star briefly in a pro-North Korean newsreel before going back to work... The volunteers are striking because the scrapyard work quotas have risen without consultation. A union rep arrives to persuade them otherwise... The guard for the female prisoners gets married but the gypsy musicians make a mess at his reception. The cook flirts with one of the pretty prisoners and finally proposes” Trivia Filmed in 1969, the film was withheld by the censors and released only in 1990 after the fall of the Communist regime. 
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