AAn analysis of Jiri Menzel's 'Larks on a String' - a film that describes the Stalinist terror in Czechoslovakia in the 1950s. The author argues that the film using a deconstruction of the style of socialist realism in film shows the reality of the epoch, for which reason the film was not shown to audiences for 20 years.
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