🎬 Larks on a String (1990)

Václav Neckář is a Czech singer and actor who rose to fame in the 1960s as a pop performer. He is internationally known for his lead role in Jiří Menzel's Oscar-winning film Closely Watched Trains (1966). He has continued performing as a live music artist throughout the decades.

Jiří Menzel is a Czech film and theatre director, best known internationally for Closely Watched Trains (1966), which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. His work is closely associated with the Czech New Wave and the literary world of Bohumil Hrabal. Alongside his film career he has directed numerous…

Rudolf Hrušínský was an acclaimed Czech actor during his country's era of communism. He was born in Nová Včelnice to Hermina Červičková and Rudolf Hrušinský (original name Rudolf Böhm, also took the stage name Otomar Otovalský). He was born, literally, back stage during a showing of the play Taneček panny Marinky. Ini…

František Řehák (1923-2017) was a Czech stage and film actor who spent most of his career at the Olomouc theatre. Director Jiří Menzel brought him to wider attention, casting him first in Capricious Summer (1967) and later in a string of films including Cutting It Short (1980), where he played the farmer Vejvoda along…

Naďa Urbánková is a Czech actress and singer, best known for her roles in Czech films and television productions of the 1970s and 1980s. She played Věra Lavičková in the classic Czech comedy Na samotě u lesa (1976), directed by Dušan Klein.

Vlastimil Brodský was a Czech actor and one of the most prominent figures of 20th-century Czech film and theatre. He was known for both comedic and dramatic roles, including collaborations with director Jiří Menzel. He appeared in the film Farářův konec (1968, dir. Evald Schorm).