Directed by:
Štěpán SkalskýCinematography:
Stanislav MilotaComposer:
Zdeněk LiškaCast:
Zora Božinová, Rade Markovic, Vlasta Kabelíková, František Krahulík, Jaroslav Dufek, František Bohdal, Josef Větrovec, Josef Husník, Pavel Kunert (more)Plots(1)
Czechoslovak counter-espionage intercepts a coded message from the West German secret service ordering death for an unknown person on Czech territory. Among the unusual deaths that follow in the course of the next few hours, a car mechanic and his girlfriend die in a car whose brakes were apparently damaged. The car belonged to a foreign citizen named Mertens and the car mechanic borrowed it without permission. Mertens is subsequently found dead in his room in a Brno hotel. He was electrocuted by his electric razor, which had been tampered with. The investigators believe a woman agent was involved and reveal that Mertens was in contact with a prostitute nicknamed Show Rose [Šaurůža]; she, however, has nothing to do with the case. The painstaking investigation leads the counter-espionage agents to Věra Weimannová and engineer Radek. The current piece of espionage turns out to be connected to a twenty-year-old unsolved case. Mertens was a spy. His stand-in is arrested on the border and a member of Czechoslovak counter-espionage is substituted. The investigators thus manage to discover the identity of Merten's murderer - the taxi driver Burda. Both he and Radek were personally interested in preventing Mertens from finding what he was searching for - a secret Nazi archive buried in a Moravian cemetery. When the particular cemetery is identified from an old photograph, it comes out that it had been flooded when a new dam was built. Burda, Radek and Weimannová are arrested. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Zora Božinová
Denmark
Best movies:
The Cremator (1968)
Ball Lightning (1978)
The Portrait (1947)
Rade Markovic
Yugoslavia
Best movies:
Petrijin venac (1980)
The Gold Rimmed Glasses (1987)
The Peach Thief (1964)
Vlasta Kabelíková
Best movies:
Tango pre medveďa (1966)
Slečny přijdou později (1966)
The Angel of Blissful Death (1965)
František Krahulík
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Honour and Glory (1968)
Naši furianti (1971) (theatrical recording)
Nobody Gets the Last Laugh (1965)
Jaroslav Dufek
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Stromy umírají vstoje (1998) (TV movie)
The Assassination (1964)
Škola žen (2007) (theatrical recording)
František Bohdal
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Svatba jako řemen (1967)
Cops and Robbers (2001) (series)
Burglar and Umbrella (1970)
Josef Větrovec
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
The Stolen Airship (1966)
Byl jednou jeden dům (1974) (series)
Svatební cesta do Jiljí (1983) (TV movie)
Josef Husník
Best movies:
Okénko (1967) (TV movie)
Případ korneta Jelagina (1968) (TV movie)
The Angel of Blissful Death (1965)
Pavel Kunert
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Cops and Robbers (2001) (series)
Rozsudky soudce Ooky (1988) (TV movie)
Koločava (2002) (theatrical recording)
Mojmír Heger
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Cops and Robbers (2001) (series)
Náš dědek Josef (1976)
Kněžna Libuše (1986) (TV movie)
Alois Liškutín
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Secluded, Near Woods (1976)
Cutting It Short (1980)
Cops and Robbers (2001) (series)
Jiří Tomek
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
All My Compatriots (1968)
Cops and Robbers (2001) (series)
Rozsudky soudce Ooky (1988) (TV movie)
Ladislav Večeřa
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Javorová fujarka (1973) (TV movie)
Náš dědek Josef (1976)
Život na úteku (1975)
Václav Všelicha
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Passing Through a Thick Forest (1963)
Scars of the Past (1958)
A Local Romance (1958)
Vladimír Bičík
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Cyrano z Bergeracu (1986) (theatrical recording)
Král Krysa (1979) (theatrical recording)
Sňatky z rozumu (1968) (series)
Oldřich Celerýn
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
You Are a Widow, Sir (1970)
Okénko (1967) (TV movie)
Kto si bez viny (1963)
Jaroslav Navrátil
Best movies:
Případ korneta Jelagina (1968) (TV movie)
The Angel of Blissful Death (1965)
Zdeněk Ornest
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Věc Makropulos (1970) (theatrical recording)
Pozor, vizita! (1981)
Panoptikum Města pražského (1987) (series)
Pavel Pípal
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Hřbitov pro cizince (1991) (TV movie)
Krvavá svatba (1987) (theatrical recording)
Smutek sluší Elektře (1991) (theatrical recording)
Bohumil Smutný
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Muž, který stoupl v ceně (1967)
Portáši (1947)
Moudrý Engelbert (1968) (TV movie)