They followed it with the delightful Larks on a String but, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia having put an end to the Prague Spring by the time it was ready for release, it didn't surface until ...

Czech film flowered during the 1960s, before the Kremlin cracked down on creativity. Though he made Larks on a String in 1969, Jirí Menzel could not release it until 1990, after the Communists fell ...

With a pic in every section of the Berlinale, Czech cinema is on a roll. Jiri Menzel’s “I Served the King of England” is screening in Competition, the first Czech pic to be selected for that category ...

Made during the Prague Spring of 1968 and banned after Soviet tanks rumbled into Czechoslovakia, Jiri Menzel`s ”Larks on a String” (6:30 p.m. at the Fine Arts II, 94 minutes) is one of the highlights ...

They followed it with the delightful Larks on a String but, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia having put an end to the Prague Spring by the time it was ready for release, it didn't surface until ...