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"Larks on a String"
1969
Directed by Jiri Menzel

From director Jiri Menzel (Closely Watched Trains) comes a buoyant and lyrical romantic comedy that was banned in Czechoslovakia until the melt-down of the iron curtain in Europe. While serving time for desertion, and taking steps toward re-education, a rag-tag group of workers unite as a young couple in the camp decides to marry. We soon find that even the prison guards can't resist the unlikely romance, as the wedding and on-site honeymoon unfold in a series of hilarious plot twists. "A blend of playfulness and political satire...Larks on a String manages to be both whimsical and dark." (New York Times).   "Beautiful, innocent and bursting with childlike sensuality."  (Premiere Magazine).  With Vaclav Neckar and Jityka Zelenohorska.
96 minutes.