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A Life at Stake (1956) [N/A]

Release Date:
November 23, 1956

Original Title:
Hra o život

Alternate Titles:
Jediné východisko
Игра на жизнь

Genres:
Drama

Production Companies:
Studio hraných filmů

Production Countries:
Czechoslovakia

Ratings / Certifications:
 N/A

Runtime: 101

Overview from TheMovieDB

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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Production

Assistant Camera:
Jiří Šafář

Assistant Director:
Alena Nová
Hugo Huška

Conductor:
František Belfín

Costume Design:
Karel Postřehovský

Costumer:
Jarmila Romanová

Creative Producer:
František Daniel

Director:
Jiří Weiss

Director of Photography:
Vladimír Novotný

Editor:
Miroslav Hájek

Executive Producer:
Karel Feix

First Assistant Director:
Milada Mikešová

Makeup & Hair:
František Novotný
Gustav Hrdlička
Jaroslav Čermák

Novel:
Karel Josef Beneš

Original Music Composer:
Jiří Srnka

Production Design:
Bohuslav Kulič

Production Manager:
Josef Ouzký

Screenplay:
Jiří Weiss
Karel Josef Beneš

Set Decoration:
Stanislav Pavlík

Sound:
František Šindelář
Miloslav Hůrka

Unit Production Manager:
Vratislav Innemann

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