A Life at Stake

A Life at Stake

1956
1h 41m
5.8

5.8/10

2 votes • View on IMDb
Drama
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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Language: CS

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Production Information

Production Companies
Studio hraných filmů
Production Countries
Czechoslovakia
Spoken Languages
Czech

Keywords

based on novel or book world war ii

Quick Facts

Original Title Hra o život
Release Date November 23, 1956
Status Released
Language CS
IMDb ID tt0048036

Cast

Karel Höger
Karel Höger

Engineer Otakar Racek

Vlasta Chramostová
Vlasta Chramostová

Vlasta, Racek's wife

Jaroslav Someš
Jaroslav Someš

Bedřich, the eldest son of the Raceks

Jaroslav Drahan
Jaroslav Drahan

Mirek, the younger son of the Raceks

Zdeněk Dítě
Zdeněk Dítě

resistance fighter Ondřej Rýdl

Soňa Neumannová
Soňa Neumannová

Racková, Otakar's mother

Otomar Krejča
Otomar Krejča

Deputy Rudolf Kadera

František Holar
František Holar

Gestapo

Jindřich Narenta
Jindřich Narenta

Gestapo

Stanislav Neumann
Stanislav Neumann

doorman Dobeš

Josef Bek
Josef Bek

supervisor Josef Frouz

Vlasta Vlasáková
Vlasta Vlasáková

Tonička, Frouz's wife

Key Crew

Jiří Weiss
Director
Karel Josef Beneš
Screenplay
Jiří Weiss
Screenplay
Karel Feix
Executive Producer