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A Life at Stake( 1956)

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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...

    Top Billed Cast

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      Karel Höger

      Engineer Otakar Racek

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      Vlasta Chramostová

      Vlasta, Racek's wife

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      Jaroslav Someš

      Bedřich, the eldest son of the Raceks

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      Jaroslav Drahan

      Mirek, the younger son of the Raceks

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      Zdeněk Dítě

      resistance fighter Ondřej Rýdl

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      Soňa Neumannová

      Racková, Otakar's mother

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      Otomar Krejča

      Deputy Rudolf Kadera

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      František Holar

      Gestapo

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      Jindřich Narenta

      Gestapo

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      Stanislav Neumann

      doorman Dobeš

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      Josef Bek

      supervisor Josef Frouz

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      Vlasta Vlasáková

      Tonička, Frouz's wife

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      Gustav Heverle

      eng. Kubišta

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      Josef Mráz

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      Jana Dítětová

      worker Zdenka, Pour's wife

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      Vladimír Hlavatý

      Tomeš

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      Jaroslav Mareš

      detektiv Brotánek

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      Felix le Breux

      owner of the detective agency Alois Barvík

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      Rudolf Deyl

      jr. caretaker

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      Věra Kalendová

      worker

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      Emil Kavan

      chimney-sweep

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      Miloš Vavruška

      resistance fighter Berka

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      Marie Kratochvílová

      Nazist

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      Marcela Sedláčková

      secretary Müllerová

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      Václav Postránecký

      Jarda, son of the Frouzs

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      Marta Májová

      woman on the street

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      Gustav Hrdlička

      clerk

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      Miroslav Moravec

      german soldier

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      Martin Skyba

      german soldier

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

    Budget

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    Keywords

    • based on novel or book
    • world war ii