The Wingless Spirit Bird
Jiří Menzel
Rudolf Hrušínský, Vladimír Broudský, Václav Neckář, Jitka Zelenohorská, Jaroslav Satoranský, Vladimír Šmeral, Ferdinand Krůta, František Rehak, Leos Sucharípa, Vladimír Ptáček, Yevgeny Yegorov, Nada Urbánková, Vera Kryzádlová, Vera Ferbasová, Jiřina Stepnicková, Mila Mísíková, Karel Mares, Zdeněk Svěrák, Vlasta Jelinek, Vera Galatíková, Zor
1969
Czechoslovakia
Completed
Czech
94 minutes
Detailed introduction
This film (drama)Also known asSkrivánci na niti，is aCzechoslovakiaProducerwomen sex，At1969Released in year
。The dialogue language isCzech，Current Douban rating8.3(For reference only)。
In a scrap metal recycling plant after the Czech "February of Victory," a group of workers, including chef Pavel (played by Václav Neckár), who refuses to work on Sundays due to his religious beliefs, is on strike. The group includes a prosecutor, a philosophy professor, and a dairy farmer. Their former worker, now their leader, has been instructed to bring a film crew to shoot a promotional movie here. Upon learning of the strike, the director storms out, but this filming brings Pavel and the beautiful female inmate Kita (played by Jitka Zelenohorská), who is in a nearby labor camp, together. The trade union sends someone to mediate the strike, only to be confronted by the dairy farmer, who subsequently disappears. Meanwhile, the guard watching the female inmates gets married, and the workers find themselves discussing philosophy and art while peeping at the female prisoners. Shortly thereafter, young pioneers visit, and the professor questions their leader, who also goes missing. Finally, Kita agrees to Pavel's marriage proposal, and they hold a wedding in absentia. At last, a high-ranking official inspects the area’s work, and Pavel poses the same question to him as he did to the professor... This film was banned for 21 years before winning the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival and the FIPRESCI Prize in 1990.