Skrivánci na niti (1990)

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94 min - Comedy | Drama | Romance - February 1990 (Czechoslovakia)

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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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Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Rudolf Hrusínský	...	Trustee
	Vlastimil Brodský	...	Professor
	Václav Neckár	...	Pavel Hvezdár
	Jitka Zelenohorská	...	Jitka
	Jaroslav Satoranský	...	Guard Andel
	Vladimír Smeral	...	Minister
	Ferdinand Kruta	...	Kudla
	Frantisek Rehák	...	Drobecek
	Leos Sucharípa	...	Public prosecutor
	Vladimír Ptácek	...	Mlíkar
	Eugen Jegorov	...	Saxophonist (as Evzen Jegorov)
	Nada Urbánková	...	Lenka
	Vera Kresadlová	...	Convict
	Vera Ferbasová	...	Convict
	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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