Jiří Menzels Larks on a String based on Bohumil Hrabals writings is a bittersweet satire set in a 1950s communist labor camp, where enemies of the state are sent to work in a scrapyard. Banned for two decades, this blackly comic humanist gem turns oppression into absurdity, reaffirming Menzels and Hrabals place in Czech cinema history.

Shot in 1968, whilst Czechoslovakia enjoyed a brief moment of political liberalization, Larks on a String is a searing political satire from director Jirí Menzel and writer Bohumil Hrabal. Like their earlier Oscar-winning triumph Closely Observed Trains, it audaciously combines black humour with grim reality.

Set in a scrap metal yard where dissidents are interned to be re-educated, the film is both a powerful critique of totalitarianism and a celebration of the resilience of the human spirit. Promptly banned by the Communist regime, the film remained unseen until 1990, when it was released to great acclaim, winning the grand prize at the Berlin Film Festival. Now regarded as a lost masterpiece, Menzels wry comic drama is a hymn to humanity and nonconformity.

Larks on a String is presented from a glorious new 4K restoration and makes its world premiere on Blu-ray.

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Set in the late 1940s, the film concerns the treatment of suspect bourgeois elements, a professor, a saxophonist, and a milkman, who are put to work in a junkyard for rehabilitation.

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Filminfo:

Version: : DVD (import)

Språk : Czech

EAN : 5060114150515

Distributor : Second Run

Inspelningsår : 1969

imdb-rating : 7.3

Längd : 1h 34m