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The House in Karp Lane

7.0 155 mins Drama   1965
Independent Film GmbH   WDR  
Director(s): Kurt Hoffmann

Release Date: 12 Fri, Mar 1965

The film depicts the fate of the residents of an apartment block in Prague’s Jewish quarter following the invasion by German troops in 1939. Among them is an elderly widow who had once disowned her son and now wishes to bring him to Brazil; there are also the owners of a stationery shop, who are driven to ruin by the German occupiers. The caretaker Glaser, who is of German descent, also comes under pressure when his son is arrested in a communist pub. To save his own skin, he informs on two young people who are active in the resistance.

Casts of The House in Karp Lane

Edith Schultze-Westrum

as Old Woman Kauders

František Filipovský

as Old Man Kauders

Ladislav Kríz

as Emil Kauders

Wolfgang Kieling

as Karl Marek

Rosel Schäfer

as Olga Marek

Helmut Schmid

as Leutnant Slezak

Walter Taub

as Salomon Laufer

Hana Vítová

as Mali Laufer

Peter Herrmann

as Ernst Laufer

Tamara Kafková

as Frieda Laufer

Martin Gregor

as Marcel Lederer

Margrit Weiler

as Bertha Lederer

Walter Buschhoff

as Krauthammer

Jiří Holý

as Klossmann

Rudolf Hrušínský

as Karl Glaser

Karl-Otto Alberty

as Leopold Glaser

Ludmila Pesková

as Anna Krummbein

Václav Voska

as Leo Mautner

Eva Maria Meineke

as Lilly Mautner

Jana Brejchová

as Bozena

Ivan Mistrík

as Milan Schramek

Berno von Cramm

as Behrend

Jan Tříska

as Kowlorat

Josef Beyvl

as Caretaker Stepanek

Rudolf Deyl

as Confectioner Vokurka

Miroslav Nohýnek

as Lederer Junior

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