Larks on a String
★ 6.9 · 1990 · 94m · Drama · Romance · Comedy
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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