Overview

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.

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Cast

Edith Schultze-Westrum

Old Woman Kauders

František Filipovský

Old Man Kauders

Wolfgang Kieling

Karl Marek

Helmut Schmid

Leutnant Slezak

Walter Taub

Salomon Laufer

Hana Vítová

Mali Laufer

Martin Gregor

Marcel Lederer

Walter Buschhoff

Krauthammer

Jiří Holý

Klossmann

Rudolf Hrušínský

Karl Glaser

Václav Voska

Leo Mautner

Eva Maria Meineke

Lilly Mautner