A Life at Stake (1956)

A Life at Stake (1956)

1956-11-23 Czechoslovakia 101 Min. PG-13
5.8 2 votes

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...

Cast

Karel Höger is Engineer Otakar Racek
Engineer Otakar Racek
Vlasta Chramostová is Vlasta, Racek's wife
Vlasta, Racek's wife
Jaroslav Someš is Bedřich, the eldest son of the Raceks
Bedřich, the eldest son of the Raceks
Jaroslav Drahan is Mirek, the younger son of the Raceks
Mirek, the younger son of the Raceks
Zdeněk Dítě is resistance fighter Ondřej Rýdl
resistance fighter Ondřej Rýdl
Soňa Neumannová is Racková, Otakar's mother
Racková, Otakar's mother
Otomar Krejča is Deputy Rudolf Kadera
Deputy Rudolf Kadera
Stanislav Neumann is doorman Dobeš
doorman Dobeš
Josef Bek is supervisor Josef Frouz
supervisor Josef Frouz
Vlasta Vlasáková is Tonička, Frouz's wife
Tonička, Frouz's wife