A Life at Stake
23/11/1956
2h
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The year is 1941 and the German Nazis rule Bohemia with a free hand. Engineer Otakar Racek is an extremely cautious man who tries to avoid problems at all costs. While some of his colleagues are being arrested by the Gestapo, he receives an offer to become the director of a new department. When he refuses to help the wife of an arrested resistance fighter, his wife Vlasta is shaken. However, she loves him, to the point of even resigning herself to the hatred of Otakar's wealthy mother. One day, Vlasta lets her old acquaintance Ondřej Rýdl, who is on the run from the Gestapo, stay at her house for a few days. The wife passes him off to her husband as a distant relative. However, Otakar succumbs to jealousy and, on his mother's advice, hires a private detective to follow Vlasta. However, the detective is also a Gestapo informant and receives a hefty reward for every arrested resistance fighter...
Cast
Karel Höger
Engineer Otakar Racek
Vlasta Chramostová
Vlasta, Racek's wife
Jaroslav Someš
Bedřich, the eldest son of the Raceks
Jaroslav Drahan
Mirek, the younger son of the Raceks
Zdeněk Dítě
resistance fighter Ondřej Rýdl
Soňa Neumannová
Racková, Otakar's mother
Otomar Krejča
Deputy Rudolf Kadera
František Holar
Gestapo
Jindřich Narenta
Gestapo
Stanislav Neumann
doorman Dobeš
Josef Bek
supervisor Josef Frouz
Vlasta Vlasáková
Tonička, Frouz's wife
Gustav Heverle
eng. Kubišta
Josef Mráz
Jana Dítětová
worker Zdenka, Pour's wife
Vladimír Hlavatý
Tomeš
Jaroslav Mareš
detektiv Brotánek
Felix le Breux
owner of the detective agency Alois Barvík
Rudolf Deyl
jr. caretaker
Věra Kalendová
worker
Emil Kavan
chimney-sweep
Miloš Vavruška
resistance fighter Berka
Marie Kratochvílová
Nazist
Marcela Sedláčková
secretary Müllerová
Václav Postránecký
Jarda, son of the Frouzs
Marta Májová
woman on the street
Gustav Hrdlička
clerk
Miroslav Moravec
german soldier
Martin Skyba
german soldier
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