In the 1960s, he was one of the leading figures of the Czechoslovak New Wave of cinema, alongside another Oscar winner Milos Forman.
Hrabal became an endless source of inspiration for Menzel, who shot the bitter-sweet film “Larks on a String” in 1969, depicting the life of people sidelined by the Communist regime ruling in then-Czechoslovakia and based on Hrabal’s novel.
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