
A Life at Stake
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...
Top Cast


Karel Höger
Karel Höger
Engineer Otakar Racek
Karel Höger
Engineer Otakar Racek


Vlasta Chramostová
Vlasta Chramostová
Vlasta, Racek's wife
Vlasta Chramostová
Vlasta, Racek's wife


Jaroslav Someš
Jaroslav Someš
Bedřich, the eldest son of the Raceks
Jaroslav Someš
Bedřich, the eldest son of the Raceks
Jaroslav Drahan
Jaroslav Drahan
Mirek, the younger son of the Raceks
Jaroslav Drahan
Mirek, the younger son of the Raceks


Zdeněk Dítě
Zdeněk Dítě
resistance fighter Ondřej Rýdl
Zdeněk Dítě
resistance fighter Ondřej Rýdl
Soňa Neumannová
Soňa Neumannová
Racková, Otakar's mother
Soňa Neumannová
Racková, Otakar's mother


Otomar Krejča
Otomar Krejča
Deputy Rudolf Kadera
Otomar Krejča
Deputy Rudolf Kadera
František Holar
František Holar
Gestapo
František Holar
Gestapo


Jindřich Narenta
Jindřich Narenta
Gestapo
Jindřich Narenta
Gestapo


Stanislav Neumann
Stanislav Neumann
doorman Dobeš
Stanislav Neumann
doorman Dobeš
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