
A Life at Stake ·Hra o život
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...
- Release Date
Nov 23, 1956
- Popularity: 0.072
- 2 votes
- Directed by
Jiří Weiss
- Screenplay by
Jiří WeissKarel Josef Beneš
- Productions
Studio hraných filmů (XC)
- Budget
Revenue: NA
Duration: 1h 41 min
Top Cast
- Karel Höger
Engineer Otakar Racek
- Vlasta Chramostová
Vlasta, Racek's wife
- Jaroslav Someš
Bedřich, the eldest son of the Raceks
- Jaroslav Drahan
Mirek, the younger son of the Raceks
- Zdeněk Dítě
resistance fighter Ondřej Rýdl
- Soňa Neumannová
Racková, Otakar's mother
- Otomar Krejča
Deputy Rudolf Kadera
- František Holar
Gestapo
Crew & Team

Director

Assistant Director

Assistant Director

First Assistant Director