A Life at Stake

A Life at Stake (1956)


  • Genre: Drama
  • Release Date: 1956-11-23
  • User Rating: 5.8/10 from 2 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 41min
  • Language: Český
  • Production Company: Studio hraných filmů
  • Production Country: Czechoslovakia
  • Director: Jiří Weiss
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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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  • 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
Directing Jiří Weiss Director
Writing Jiří Weiss Screenplay
Writing Karel Josef Beneš Screenplay
Writing Karel Josef Beneš Novel
Sound Jiří Srnka Original Music Composer
Directing Milada Mikešová First Assistant Director
Camera Jiří Šafář Assistant Camera
Art Stanislav Pavlík Set Decoration
Costume & Make-Up Jarmila Romanová Costumer
Costume & Make-Up Gustav Hrdlička Makeup & Hair
Costume & Make-Up Jaroslav Čermák Makeup & Hair
Costume & Make-Up František Novotný Makeup & Hair
Production Josef Ouzký Production Manager
Sound František Belfín Conductor
Writing František Daniel Creative Producer
Production Karel Feix Executive Producer
Camera Vladimír Novotný Director of Photography
Art Bohuslav Kulič Production Design
Costume & Make-Up Karel Postřehovský Costume Design
Sound Miloslav Hůrka Sound
Sound František Šindelář Sound
Editing Miroslav Hájek Editor
Production Vratislav Innemann Unit Manager
Directing Alena Nová Second Assistant Director
Directing Hugo Huška Second Assistant Director

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