A Life at Stake 1956
A Life at Stake
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...
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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Full Cast & Crew... Engineer Otakar Racek
... Vlasta, Racek's wife
... Bedřich, the eldest son of the Raceks
... Mirek, the younger son of the Raceks
... resistance fighter Ondřej Rýdl
... Racková, Otakar's mother
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Release Date:
Nov 23, 1956
Run Time:
1hr 41`
MMPA Rating:
Original Language:
Czech
Status:
Released
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Cast & Crew of
A Life at Stake - A Life at Stake
Directors & Credit Writers
Cast
... Engineer Otakar Racek
... Vlasta, Racek's wife
... Bedřich, the eldest son of the Raceks
... Mirek, the younger son of the Raceks
... resistance fighter Ondřej Rýdl
... Racková, Otakar's mother
... Deputy Rudolf Kadera
... Gestapo
... Gestapo
... doorman Dobeš
... supervisor Josef Frouz
... Tonička, Frouz's wife
... eng. Kubišta
JM
Josef Mráz...
... worker Zdenka, Pour's wife
... Tomeš
... detektiv Brotánek
... owner of the detective agency Alois Barvík
... jr. caretaker
... worker
Produced By
KF
Karel Feix... Executive Producer
... Unit Production Manager
JO
Josef Ouzký... Production Manager