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A Life at Stake

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5.8/10 • 2

1956-11-231h 41m

Drama

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...

Directors
Jiří Weiss
Editors
Miroslav Hájek

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  1. Karel Höger

    Karel Höger

    Engineer Otakar Racek

  2. Vlasta Chramostová

    Vlasta Chramostová

    Vlasta, Racek's wife

  3. Jaroslav Someš

    Jaroslav Someš

    Bedřich, the eldest son of the Raceks

  4. Jaroslav Drahan

    Jaroslav Drahan

    Mirek, the younger son of the Raceks

  5. Zdeněk Dítě

    Zdeněk Dítě

    resistance fighter Ondřej Rýdl

  6. Soňa Neumannová

    Soňa Neumannová

    Racková, Otakar's mother

  7. Otomar Krejča

    Otomar Krejča

    Deputy Rudolf Kadera

  8. František Holar

    František Holar

    Gestapo

  9. Jindřich Narenta

    Jindřich Narenta

    Gestapo

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    Status
    Released
    Original Language
    Czech
    Budget
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    Keywords
    based on novel or bookworld war ii