Larks on a String

Larks on a String
Directed by	Jiří Menzel
Written by	Jiří Menzel, based on the novel by Bohumil Hrabal
Music by	Jiří Šust
Cinematography	Jaromír Šofr
Distributed by	IFEX (US theatrical) Fox Lorber (US VHS) Second Run DVD 2011(UK DVD)
Release date	1990 (Czech Republic) 13 February 1991 (New York City only)
Running time	96 minutes
Country	Czechoslovakia
Language	Czech

Larks on a String (Czech: Skřivánci na niti) is a 1969 Czech film directed by Jiří Menzel. The movie was banned by the Czechoslovak government. It saw release in 1990 after the fall of the Communist regime. It tells the stories of various characters considered bourgeois by Czechoslovakia's communist government in the 1950s, who have been forced to work in a junkyard for the purposes of re-education. It won the Golden Bear at the 40th Berlin International Film Festival.