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Skrivánci na niti (1990)
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. Director:Jirí Menzel |
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Skrivánci na niti (1990)
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. Director:Jirí Menzel |
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Rudolf Hrusínský | ... |
Trustee
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Vlastimil Brodský | ... |
Professor
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Václav Neckár | ... |
Pavel Hvezdár
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Jitka Zelenohorská | ... |
Jitka
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Jaroslav Satoranský | ... |
Guard Andel
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Vladimír Smeral | ... |
Minister
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Ferdinand Kruta | ... |
Kudla
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Frantisek Rehák | ... |
Drobecek
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Leos Sucharípa | ... |
Public prosecutor
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Vladimír Ptácek | ... |
Mlíkar
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Eugen Jegorov | ... |
Saxophonist
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Nada Urbánková | ... |
Lenka
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Vera Kresadlová | ... |
Convict
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Vera Ferbasová | ... |
Convict
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Jirina Stepnicková | ... |
Pavel's mother
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Prague in the early 1950's. Bourgeois elements are being re-educated by working in a scrapyard full of the detritus of industrial society. The volunteer workers comprise a professor of literature, a public prosecutor, a dairyman, a saxophonist, a barber, and a young cook. Also working in the yard are a number of female prisoners serving a year for trying to defect... A camera crew arrives with potted plants and other props. An idyllic scene is created; the prisoners star briefly in a pro-North Korean newsreel before going back to work... The volunteers are striking because the scrapyard work quotas have risen without consultation. A union rep arrives to persuade them otherwise... The guard for the female prisoners gets married but the gypsy musicians make a mess at his reception. The cook flirts with one of the pretty prisoners and finally proposes... Written by David Carless
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