Directed by:
Vladimír ČechCinematography:
Václav HuňkaComposer:
Štěpán LuckýCast:
František Vicena, Wilhelm Koch-Hooge, Zdeněk Kampf, Vlasta Vlasáková, Eva Jiroušková, Oldřich Velen, Jürgen Frohriep, Miloslav Holub, Jindřich Narenta (more)Plots(1)
Biographical drama The Key is the first film that fully complies with the demands of the Normalisation period which started setting in at the time. A film about communist official and anti-Nazi resistance fighter Jan Zika shamelessly manipulates facts, promoting Communist ideology and foisting the idea of Soviet Union's indispensability. Luckily, Čech's film is an exceptionally boring debacle. (Summer Film School)
(more)Cast
Blažena Vernerová
Austria-Hungary
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Jiřina Zemanová
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Vlastimila Vlková
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Bára Štěpánová
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Jaroslav Klenot
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Otakar Rademacher
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Jindřich Sejk
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Antonín Pokorný
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Ivan Růžička
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Karel Vítek st.
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Milan Kindl
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Jiří Němeček
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Rudolf Jelínek
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Alena Walterová
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Miroslav Müller
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