Larks on a String

Larks on a String(1990)

6.8/10
44 votes
94 minFebruary 1, 1990

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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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