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Death Behind a Curtain (1967)
Directed by Antonín Kachlík
Overview
Members of an organised group smuggling heroin from France to Italy send a new shipment of the drug via Sweden, the GDR and Czechoslovakia. A new ballet is about to premiere at the Fibich Theatre in Prague. However, the situation is complicated by a horrific event: prima ballerina Milada Havlová is found dead in her dressing room. The autopsy and the first analyses reveal that she died of a heroin overdose. Captain Chrástek is in charge of the investigation and believes that it is not an accident but murder. An investigation unfolds that reveals not only the strained relationships between the members of the ballet company, but above all an international criminal network…
Length 87 minutes
Actors
Lubomír Lipský | Stanislav Šimek | Miroslav Horníček | Jaroslav Satoranský | Lenka Fiserová | Gabriela Vránová | Květa Fialová | Jirí Vrstála | Waldemar Matuška | Jiří Mikota | Ilja Prachař | Josef Langmiler | Hannjo Hasse | Karel Pavlík | Marie Rovenská | Helga Čočková | Kvetoslava Houdlová | Bohuš Pastorek | František Kubíček | Alena Kaslová | Josef Stehlík | Alexej Kusák | Arthur Jopp | Antonín Jedlička | Jiří Hoščálek | Věra Chocová | Jana Heyduková | Milan Ječmínek | Eva Kaprálová | Eva Hřebenářová | Jarmila Kostlivá | Miroslava Krčálová | Miroslav Kydlíček | Petr Novák | Jiří Paclík | Ludmila Rašpličková | Zdeněk Sudek | Věra Sudková | Dana Špédlová | Pavel Vitinger | Zdeňka Zvonařová | Jiří Žalud | Marie Plášilová | P. Režná | Dana Reimova | Marie Stichová | Jan Baloun | Alena Kreuzmannová