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A Life at Stake

A Life at Stake

Drama

1h 41m

November 23, 1956 (68 years ago)

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...

ActorAge thenAge now
Karel Höger

Karel Höger

Engineer Otakar Racek

Birthday: June 17, 1909

47 May 4, 1977 (67)
Vlasta Chramostová

Vlasta Chramostová

Vlasta, Racek's wife

Birthday: November 17, 1926

30 October 6, 2019 (92)
Jaroslav Someš

Jaroslav Someš

Bedřich, the eldest son of the Raceks

Birthday: June 21, 1941

1584
Jaroslav Drahan

Jaroslav Drahan

Mirek, the younger son of the Raceks

Birthday: -

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Zdeněk Dítě

Zdeněk Dítě

resistance fighter Ondřej Rýdl

Birthday: November 19, 1920

36 December 11, 2001 (81)
Soňa Neumannová

Soňa Neumannová

Racková, Otakar's mother

Birthday: September 19, 1905

51 September 17, 1971 (65)
Otomar Krejča

Otomar Krejča

Deputy Rudolf Kadera

Birthday: November 23, 1921

35 November 6, 2009 (87)
František Holar

František Holar

Gestapo

Birthday: February 1, 1917

39 September 9, 1970 (53)
Jindřich Narenta

Jindřich Narenta

Gestapo

Birthday: May 9, 1921

35 June 26, 1992 (71)
Stanislav Neumann

Stanislav Neumann

doorman Dobeš

Birthday: July 16, 1902

54 February 19, 1975 (72)