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A Life at Stake

A Life at Stake

1956•1h 41m•5.8/10
Drama

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5.8/10(2)

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...

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Karel Höger

Karel Höger

Engineer Otakar Racek

Vlasta Chramostová

Vlasta Chramostová

Vlasta, Racek's wife

Jaroslav Someš

Jaroslav Someš

Bedřich, the eldest son of the Raceks

Jaroslav Drahan

Mirek, the younger son of the Raceks

Zdeněk Dítě

Zdeněk Dítě

resistance fighter Ondřej Rýdl

Soňa Neumannová

Racková, Otakar's mother

Otomar Krejča

Otomar Krejča

Deputy Rudolf Kadera

František Holar

Gestapo

Jindřich Narenta

Jindřich Narenta

Gestapo

Stanislav Neumann

Stanislav Neumann

doorman Dobeš

Josef Bek

Josef Bek

supervisor Josef Frouz

Vlasta Vlasáková

Tonička, Frouz's wife

Gustav Heverle

Gustav Heverle

eng. Kubišta

Josef Mráz

Jana Dítětová

Jana Dítětová

worker Zdenka, Pour's wife

Vladimír Hlavatý

Vladimír Hlavatý

Tomeš

Jaroslav Mareš

Jaroslav Mareš

detektiv Brotánek

Felix le Breux

Felix le Breux

owner of the detective agency Alois Barvík

Rudolf Deyl

Rudolf Deyl

jr. caretaker

Věra Kalendová

worker

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