Days of Betrayal (1973)
Overview
This feature film based on the events of 1938 is a chronicle of the futile efforts of the Czechoslovak president Edvard Benes (Jirí Pleskot), politicians and ordinary citizens, to save the independence and the territorial integrity of the state from the advance of Hitler's Germany. On the 29th of March 1938 the leader of the Sudeten Germans Henlein (Werner Ehrlicher) has a meeting with Hitler (Gunnar Möller). Hitler orders him to intensify pressure on the Czechoslovak government. On the 24th of April in Carlsbad, the Sudetendeutsche Partei (Sudeten German Party) decides upon eight demands that are unacceptable to the Czechoslovak President, since they would ultimately lead to the break-up of the Republic. Benes still shows a certain willingness to negotiate, and Henlein resents this. The Germans are determined to make further negotiations impossible through incidents and violence.
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| Budget | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Revenue | $0.00 |
| Original Language | cs |
| Popularity | 4.043 |
Directed By
Otakar Vávra
Crew
Otakar Vávra
Jaromír Šofr
Karel Lier
Rudolf Hammer
Jiří Sládek
Jaroslav Lehman
Milan Kindl
Jaroslav Klenot
Aleš Voleman
Miloslav Fábera
Bohumír Schwarzer
Otakar Košťál
Adolf Böhm
Dana Dudová
Karel Ješátko
Václav Jánský
Jiří Plachý
Miroslav Voštiar
Jiří Mašín
Corina Schlesingerová
Miloslav Fábera
Miloslav Jandera
Ladislav Kalaš
Jiří Kalenský
Oldřich Semerák
Jaroslav Tomsa
Karel Brchel
Jan Kropáček
Jiří Kasík
Jindřich Sejk
Jiří Šmejkal
Vladimír Zelenka
Otakar Vávra
Petr Čech
Ester Krumbachová
Arnošt Böhm
Libuše Jahodová
Růžena Bulíčková
Antonín Zelenka
Jan Syrový
Lucie Hertlová
Zlatomil Fabinyi
Ladislav Lahoda
Ivan Ernyei
Eliška Hofová
Věra Lukášová
Josef Engel
Vladislav Heráček
Michal Čuška
Miroslav Jíra
Stanislav Šedivý
Otakar Vávra
Ladislav Rada
Jiří Budín
Milan Novák
Petr Jákl
Štěpán Skalský
Antonín Suchánek
Ivana Malíková
Zdeněk Srstka
Gustav Rohan
Karel Engel
Josef Pavlík
Eliška Willigová
František Belfín
Jiří Klenot
Zdeněk Liška
Michal Vachun
Stanislav Tůma
Jan Váňa
František Jákl
Karel Vítek
Ludvík Wolf
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