Actress Olga Brandová arrives home from the cinema and finds her husband, whom she is divorcing, shot dead. It seems like a clear case of suicide, however, police Lieutenant Dušek has suspicions that he was murdered, possibly even by Olga. A letter from the dead Brand supposedly confirms the suicide. Olga's lawyer and friend, Dr Klimeš, gradually uncovers all kinds of strange circumstances surrounding Brand's death. He first finds out that the letter is a forgery and that Brand belonged to a dangerous gang which committed crimes against the state. Dr Klimeš is not sure whether to give Dušek this information. He is afraid that his testimony would confirm Dušek's suspicions about Olga. In the end his sense for justice and truth gets the better of him. The information he provides leads to the unveiling of the gang's criminal activities. Further investigation proves Olga's innocence, and Brand's murderer is found. The latter had forced money out of Brand which he had received for his services to a foreign legation.
právní zástupce JUDr. Petr Klimeš
herečka Olga Brandová
nadporučík Dušek
profesor Novák
poručík Karlíček
Hugo Drašner
dr. Vilém Horyna
Karel Brand
Alfréd Toglar alias Václav Dvořáček
Klimešova matka
podplukovník
detektiv
Drašnerova milenka Kadlecová
pokladní
Nováková
příslušník VB u vysílačky
tajný
dispečerka záchranné stanice
vedoucí kina
sekretářka u Klimeše
předseda soudu
Karel Palouš
správcová
lékař
důstojník VB
laborant
Klára
dozorčí důstojník
příslušník VB
tiskař
člen bandy
npor. Miroslav Opravil
Bohuslav Kück (fotograf), Eva Kučerová
FISYO (Music Conducted by František Belfín)
Padělek
Padělek
The Forgery
film
featuretheatrical distribution
detective, crime
Czechoslovakia
1957
1957
projection approval 24 October 1957
withdrawal from distribution 6 April 1965
premiere 29 November 1957 /unsuitable for youths/ (kina Blaník /4 týdny/, Kyjev /1 týden/, Radost /1 týden od 13. 12./ a Revoluce /1 týden od 20. 12./, Praha)
Tvůrčí skupina Šebor – Kratochvíl, Miloš V. Kratochvíl (vedoucí dramaturg tvůrčí skupiny), Jiří Šebor (vedoucí výroby tvůrčí skupiny)
feature film
83 min
2 361 meters
16mm, 35mm
1:1,37
black & white
sound
mono
Czech
Czech
without subtitles
Czech