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A Life at Stake

5.8 101 mins Drama   1956
Studio hraných filmů  
Director(s): Jiří Weiss

Release Date: 23 Fri, Nov 1956

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...

Casts of A Life at Stake

Karel Höger

as Engineer Otakar Racek

Vlasta Chramostová

as Vlasta, Racek's wife

Jaroslav Someš

as Bedřich, the eldest son of the Raceks

Jaroslav Drahan

as Mirek, the younger son of the Raceks

Zdeněk Dítě

as resistance fighter Ondřej Rýdl

Soňa Neumannová

as Racková, Otakar's mother

Otomar Krejča

as Deputy Rudolf Kadera

František Holar

as Gestapo

Jindřich Narenta

as Gestapo

Stanislav Neumann

as doorman Dobeš

Josef Bek

as supervisor Josef Frouz

Vlasta Vlasáková

as Tonička, Frouz's wife

Gustav Heverle

as eng. Kubišta

Jana Dítětová

as worker Zdenka, Pour's wife

Vladimír Hlavatý

as Tomeš

Jaroslav Mareš

as detektiv Brotánek

Felix le Breux

as owner of the detective agency Alois Barvík

Rudolf Deyl

as jr. caretaker

Věra Kalendová

as worker

Emil Kavan

as chimney-sweep

Miloš Vavruška

as resistance fighter Berka

Marcela Sedláčková

as secretary Müllerová

Václav Postránecký

as Jarda, son of the Frouzs

Marta Májová

as woman on the street

Gustav Hrdlička

as clerk

Miroslav Moravec

as german soldier

Martin Skyba

as german soldier

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