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A Life at Stake (1956)

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...
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Jiří Weiss profile
Jiří Weiss

Director

Jiří Weiss profile
Jiří Weiss

Screenplay

Cast

Karel Höger profile
Karel Höger

Engineer Otakar Racek

Vlasta Chramostová profile
Vlasta Chramostová

Vlasta, Racek's wife

Jaroslav Someš profile
Jaroslav Someš

Bedřich, the eldest son of the Raceks

Jaroslav Drahan profile
Jaroslav Drahan

Mirek, the younger son of the Raceks

Zdeněk Dítě profile
Zdeněk Dítě

resistance fighter Ondřej Rýdl

Soňa Neumannová profile
Soňa Neumannová

Racková, Otakar's mother

Otomar Krejča profile
Otomar Krejča

Deputy Rudolf Kadera

František Holar profile
František Holar

Gestapo

Jindřich Narenta profile
Jindřich Narenta

Gestapo

Stanislav Neumann profile
Stanislav Neumann

doorman Dobeš

Josef Bek profile
Josef Bek

supervisor Josef Frouz

Vlasta Vlasáková profile
Vlasta Vlasáková

Tonička, Frouz's wife

Karel Höger profile
Karel Höger

Engineer Otakar Racek

Vlasta Chramostová profile
Vlasta Chramostová

Vlasta, Racek's wife

Jaroslav Someš profile
Jaroslav Someš

Bedřich, the eldest son of the Raceks

Jaroslav Drahan profile
Jaroslav Drahan

Mirek, the younger son of the Raceks

Zdeněk Dítě profile
Zdeněk Dítě

resistance fighter Ondřej Rýdl

Soňa Neumannová profile
Soňa Neumannová

Racková, Otakar's mother

Otomar Krejča profile
Otomar Krejča

Deputy Rudolf Kadera

František Holar profile
František Holar

Gestapo

Jindřich Narenta profile
Jindřich Narenta

Gestapo

Stanislav Neumann profile
Stanislav Neumann

doorman Dobeš

Josef Bek profile
Josef Bek

supervisor Josef Frouz

Vlasta Vlasáková profile
Vlasta Vlasáková

Tonička, Frouz's wife

Extra

Release Date

November 23, 1956

Original Language

Czech

Budget

$0.00

Production Company

Studio hraných filmů logo

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