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Days of Betrayal

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.

1973 |3h 47m |  History, Drama

Cast

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Jiří Pleskot

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Bohumil Pastorek

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Gunnar Möller

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Martin Gregor

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Bořivoj Navrátil

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Otakar Brousek

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Josef Langmiler

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Čestmír Řanda

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Vladimír Šmeral

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Jaromír Hanzlík

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Jiří Krampol

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Vítězslav Jandák

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Renáta Doleželová

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Wilhelm Koch-Hooge

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Gustav Nezval

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Vladislav Strzhelchik

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Ota Sklenčka

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Svatopluk Beneš

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Vladimír Salač

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Michal Dočolomanský

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Ladislav Lakomý

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Vladimír Hlavatý

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Gerhard Rachold

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Ilja Prachař

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Jiří Holý

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František Zvarík

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Erich Brauer

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Emma Černá

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Jaroslav Dufek

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Martin Štěpánek

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Josef Větrovec

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Stanislav Zindulka

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Miloš Nedbal

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Josef Somr

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Iva Hüttnerová

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Siegfried Loyda

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Jaroslav Satoranský

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Raoul Schránil

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Emil Horváth

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Petr Oliva

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Karel Hábl

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Michal Pavlata

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Miroslav Zounar

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Jan Teplý

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Oldřich Velen

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Ivo Kubečka

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Bohumil Švarc

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Roman Hemala

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Oto Ševčík

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Vlastimil Čaněk

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Ladislav Frej

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Jiří Wohanka

Soldier

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Václav Knop

Soldier

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Zdeněk Mucha

Soldier

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Zdeněk Srstka

Soldier

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Karel Hlušička

Commentary (voice)

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Status

Released

Language

Czech

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