در چکسلواکی کمونیستی پس از جنگ جهانی دوم، چندین شخصیت که بورژوا محسوب میشوند به کار در یک زبالهدان برای بازپروری محکوم میشوند. در میان آنها، یک جوان وجود دارد که برای یک زندانی زن دلتنگ است.
Larks on a String is a 1969 Czech film directed by Jiří Menzel. The film was banned by the Czechoslovak government, but was later released in 1990 after the fall of the Communist regime. It tells the stories of various characters considered bourgeois by Czechoslovakia's communist government in the 1950s, who have been forced to work in a junkyard for the purposes of re-education. It won the Golden Bear at the 40th Berlin International Film Festival.