
1965
The film depicts the fate of the residents of an apartment block in Prague’s Jewish quarter following the invasion by German troops in 1939. Among them is an elderly widow who had once disowned her son and now wishes to bring him to Brazil; there are also the owners of a stationery shop, who are driven to ruin by the German occupiers. The caretaker Glaser, who is of German descent, also comes under pressure when his son is arrested in a communist pub. To save his own skin, he informs on two young people who are active in the resistance.

Edith Schultze-Westrum
Old Woman Kauders

František Filipovský
Old Man Kauders

Ladislav Kríz
Emil Kauders

Wolfgang Kieling
Karl Marek

Rosel Schäfer
Olga Marek

Helmut Schmid
Leutnant Slezak

Walter Taub
Salomon Laufer

Hana Vítová
Mali Laufer

Peter Herrmann
Ernst Laufer

Tamara Kafková
Frieda Laufer

Martin Gregor
Marcel Lederer

Margrit Weiler
Bertha Lederer

Walter Buschhoff
Krauthammer

Jiří Holý
Klossmann

Rudolf Hrušínský
Karl Glaser

Karl-Otto Alberty
Leopold Glaser

Ludmila Pesková
Anna Krummbein

Václav Voska
Leo Mautner

Eva Maria Meineke
Lilly Mautner

Jana Brejchová
Bozena

Ivan Mistrík
Milan Schramek

Berno von Cramm
Behrend

Jan Tříska
Kowlorat

Libuše Pešková

Josef Beyvl
Caretaker Stepanek

Rudolf Deyl
Confectioner Vokurka

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