Larks on a String
1990 · 94 MIN · IMDB 7.3 · 2,275 VOTES · DIR. Jiří Menzel
Overview
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 715 lines
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00:00:29 ...Presents a film based on a book by Bohumil Hrabal
00:04:37 Patented... Patented...
00:06:57 - No way, I'm in the dog-house as it is.
00:09:09 Smile!
00:10:23 - I'm fed up with you!
00:16:10 and half of the material will have to go back
00:17:47 - So don't get married then!
00:20:12 If you don't know the Party line, at least I do.
00:29:02 - And Elsa wants some chocolate.
00:33:07 When a man goes walking on a quiet summer night
00:37:01 of the Jewish spirit, eh?
00:39:25 but a huge difference between Iran and Iraq.
00:42:25 The children will be surprised.
00:48:30 - Go then. But only three of you!
00:53:30 Come on!
00:58:13 Eisenhower will pursue a policy of force.
01:01:31 who are using our reactionaries to their base ends.
01:04:54 bathing and love-making
01:08:36 Weddings should be before Easter.
01:13:20 takes this man, Pavel Hvezdar, willingly?
01:20:09 Husband and wife should support each other!
01:23:34 Is the wash-tub ready? - Yeah.
01:26:27 But I still haven't got him home.
01:30:07 Made at Script Editor
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed715
Dialogue density7.6 lines / min
First line00:00:29
Final line01:30:07
Production Record
DirectorJiří Menzel
LanguageCS
IMDb votes2,275