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The Motive for Murder (1975)
Directed by Jiří Svoboda, Július Matula, Tomáš Svoboda
Overview
A short story film depicting the three different faces of crime. In the short story “The Weekend”, Karas kills a woman he raped some time ago in order to silence her. However, he accidentally kills another woman. In “Hostages”, a drug addict, Chaban, terrorizes the hospital’s operating team, but the disciplined doctors handle the difficult situation. In “The Pickpocket”, the thief Benda wants to return to his trade immediately after his release, but his attempt ends tragically.
Length 90 minutes
Actors
Ilja Prachař | Antonie Hegerlíková | Helga Čočková | Zdena Studenková | Vlado Černý | Vlastimil Hašek | František Hanus | Eva Friedrichová | Václav Postránecký | Jan Teplý | Ivo Niederle | Jiří Schmitzer | Václav Vydra | Karel Hábl | Miroslav Chochola | Oldřich Vlček | Karel Vítek | Jiří Hálek | Blanka Waleská | Bohumil Šmída | Václav Mareš | Gustav Heverle | Jaroslav Mareš | Rudolf Jelínek | Karel Fridrich | Josef Velda | Miloš Vávra | Marie Motlová | Nina Divíšková | Jan Faltýnek | Karel Belohradský | František Rokos | Jiří Wohanka | Milena Svobodová | Mária Nováková | Slávka Krauskopfová | Martin Liška | Miloslav Vajnar | Vladimír Lemon | Naděžda Prchalová-Vicenová | Lubor Kříž | Miroslav Strnad | Vít Fiala | Otakar Bartoš | Jaroslav Pavlis | Josef Bárta | Leoš Jirsák | Petr Čepek | Jana Brejchová | Slávka Budínová | Josef Somr | Josef Abrhám | Jiří Bednář | Filip Renč | Josef Langmiler | Oldřich Velen | Viktor Maurer | Eugen Jegorov | Vlastimil Čaněk | Radim Vašinka | Stanislav Litera | Viktor Očásek | Josef Sebek | Zdeněk Srstka | Jaroslav Tomsa | Karel Engel | Ladislav Gzela | Lucie Krátká | Josef Blažek | Jiří Flíček | Otto Ohnesorg | Magda Maděrová | Kateřina Macháčková | Tomáš Töpfer | Jiří Němeček | Tomás Sedlácek