Movielogr
Záchvěv strachu (1984)
Directed by Jaroslav Soukup
Overview
Getting out of prison doesn’t mean being free. After the bloody suppression of the Prague Revolution in 1848, one of its participants, the writer František Vinický, spent eight years in prison. Returning to Prague in 1857, he tries to make contact with his former friends. The main one is his former comrade-in-arms Antoš. Of course, the man’s steps also lead him to his former love Ida, who has been married to the councillor Mayer for several years. Vinicky is followed at practically every turn by the secret police, who will not allow him to get a decent job, let alone publish his new book. Police Councillor Berger makes it clear to the writer that a lot could be arranged if Vinicky would commit to cooperating…
Actors
Radoslav Brzobohatý | Štefan Kvietik | Soňa Dvořáková | Petr Kostka | František Němec | Vilém Besser | Radovan Lukavský | Josef Abrhám | Vladimír Brabec | Svatopluk Matyáš | Libuše Geprtová | Ota Sklenička | Otakar Brousek sr. | Petr Oliva | Karel Vochoč | Jiří Tomek | Věra Kubánková | Jan Skopeček | Josef Patočka | Boris Rösner | Vladimír Krška | František Švihlík | Bohuslav Ličman | Jaroslav Tomsa | Ferdinand Krůta | Karel Šebesta | Ladislav Šimek | Otto Budín | Táňa Fischerová | Alexej Gsöllhofer | Kateřina Lírová | Lena Birková | Stanislav Oubram | Jaromíra Mílová | Antonín Brtoun | Václav Mareš | Jana Matiášková | Jana Sedlmajerová | Vladimír Kubíček | Zdenek Ornest | Zdeněk Barták | Erich Fichtner | Vladimír Huber | Gustav Opočenský | Jaroslav Konečný | Petr Haničinec | Bohumila Dolejšová | Václav Kankovský