Larks on a String

00:00:29 ...Presents a film based on a book by Bohumil Hrabal

00:04:36 This is Tiny, a former joiner.

00:06:46 The PUSAN fortress will soon fall. - Pusan.

00:09:03 as if you were reading it... That's it, that's it.

00:10:15 to the management and the Trade Union Council.

00:15:58 The other day they broke the record for the open-hearth furnaces.

00:17:28 If a worker slaps me, they may lock me up

00:19:45 - Comrade, you can't say things like that

00:28:41 - Angel trampled on the gypsy's violin...

00:32:02 You know, nowadays, I am interested in Dreaiser

00:36:24 At one end, a Jew genius, Christ

00:38:15 - No.

00:41:07 The starry sky above me and the moral code in me.

00:47:22 Thanks.

00:50:52 that they won't go back into their aquarium

00:56:01 Your poems have immortalised all manner of eras so profoundly

00:59:49 You couldn't help feeling sorry for them.

01:02:28 - Comrade... - Just let the children hear it.

01:06:56 Wilful desertion of your post is punishable by demotion

01:09:16 But after the eight lap, it was nerve-cracking.

01:15:10 you've been married and your name now is Jitka Hvezdarova.

01:21:34 If only Bozena Nemcova had lived to see this!

01:24:32 You look after the young ones and you don't care a jot about the old!

01:27:11 - Here. With me always.