A Life at Stake
23/11/1956
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...
Movie Information
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
Josef Mráz
as
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
Marie Kratochvílová
as Nazist
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
