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The Secret of Blood (1953)
Directed by Martin Frič
Overview
A biographical film about a Czech doctor, Dr. Jánský. The athletically inclined medic Jánský successfully completes his studies. He wants to become a surgeon, but finds himself in Professor Kuffner’s psychiatric clinic, where, together with his colleague Kozdera, he tries to uncover the connection between blood clotting and mental illness. They make the surprising discovery that human blood can be divided into four groups and thus prevent it from clotting during transfusions. However, Jánský‘s discovery is met with misunderstanding by the Czech medical community…
Length 108 minutes
Actors
Vladimír Ráž | Zdeněk Štěpánek | Jiřina Petrovická | Vlastimil Brodský | Svatopluk Beneš | Rudolf Hrušínský | Rudolf Deyl ml. | Radovan Lukavský | Vlasta Chramostová | Gustav Hilmar | Světla Svozilová | Bohuš Hradil | Josef Hlinomaz | Miloš Vavruška | Václav Trégl | Emil Bolek | Ilona Kubásková | František Filipovský | Bedřich Vrbský | Miloš Kopecký | Jan Stanislav Kolár | Rudolf Sejrek | Pavel Nosek | Antonín Hulínský | Lubomír Lipský | Miroslav Svoboda | Ladislav Kulhánek | Karel Houska | Ada Dohnal | Bohumil Machník | Meda Valentová | Bedřich Bozděch | Josef Kollár | Zdena Kožíková | Jindra Hermanová | Věra Váchová | František Vandas | Marie Grossová | František Suk | Josef Steigl | Ludmila Hošková | Josef Kemr | Fanda Mrázek | Václav Mareška | Josef Kozák | Jarmila Švabíková | Anita Janová