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    A Life at Stake

    101'

    1956-11-23

    6.2

    Drama

    Overview:

    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...

    DirectingJiří WeissWritingJiří Weiss

    Cast

    1

    Engineer Otakar Racek

    Karel Höger

    1

    Vlasta, Racek's wife

    Vlasta Chramostová

    1

    Bedřich, the eldest son of the Raceks

    Jaroslav Someš

    1

    Mirek, the younger son of the Raceks

    Jaroslav Drahan

    1

    resistance fighter Ondřej Rýdl

    Zdeněk Dítě

    1

    Racková, Otakar's mother

    Soňa Neumannová

    1

    Deputy Rudolf Kadera

    Otomar Krejča

    1

    Gestapo

    František Holar

    1

    Gestapo

    Jindřich Narenta

    1

    doorman Dobeš

    Stanislav Neumann

    1

    supervisor Josef Frouz

    Josef Bek

    1

    Tonička, Frouz's wife

    Vlasta Vlasáková

    1

    eng. Kubišta

    Gustav Heverle

    1

    Josef Mráz

    1

    worker Zdenka, Pour's wife

    Jana Dítětová

    1

    Tomeš

    Vladimír Hlavatý

    1

    detektiv Brotánek

    Jaroslav Mareš

    1

    owner of the detective agency Alois Barvík

    Felix le Breux

    1

    jr. caretaker

    Rudolf Deyl

    1

    worker

    Věra Kalendová

    1

    chimney-sweep

    Emil Kavan

    1

    resistance fighter Berka

    Miloš Vavruška

    1

    Nazist

    Marie Kratochvílová

    1

    secretary Müllerová

    Marcela Sedláčková

    1

    Jarda, son of the Frouzs

    Václav Postránecký

    1

    woman on the street

    Marta Májová

    1

    clerk

    Gustav Hrdlička

    1

    german soldier

    Miroslav Moravec

    1

    german soldier

    Martin Skyba

    Details:

    • Budget: 0
    • Home page
    • Revenue: 0
    • List of countries:
      1. Czechoslovakia
    • List of languages:
      1. Czech
    • List of companies:
      1. Studio hraných filmů
    • Vote Count: 3
    • Popularity: 0.3129
    • Status: Released
    • Original title:Hra o život

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