Five crime stories connected by the narration of police superintendent Bartosek.
Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia
Jaroslav Marvan Vladimír Hlavatý Jaroslav Průcha Vladimír Řepa Gustav Hilmar Felix le Breux Ladislav Kulhánek Lída Chválová Jiřina Stránská Blažena Slavíčková Milada Smolíková Ella Nollová Paľo Bielik František Filipovský Arnold Flögl František Kovářík Antonie Nedošinská Theodor Pištěk Lola Skrbková František Smolík Vladimír Šmeral Emil Bolek Karel Svoboda Helena Bušová Terezie Brzková Antonín Šůra Antonín Jirsa Jaroslav Vojta Vilém Pfeiffer Ondrej Jariabek Věra Kalendová František Sauer Jára Kohout Darja Hajská Alois Dvorský Světla Svozilová Ladislav Sedláček Jan S. Kolár Rudolf Široký Jan W. Speerger Blanka Waleská Eduard Dubský Antonín Kandert František Marek Jaroslav Zrotal Marie Nademlejnská Běla Jurdová Marie Kautská Ludmila Burešová Marie Ježková Jindra Hermanová Ferdinand Jarkovský Bohuš Hradil Václav Švec František Roland Ota Motyčka Viktor Očásek Stanislav Remunda Vojtěch Záhořík Josef Oliak Miloš Šubrt Bedřich Bozděch Antonín Holzinger Zdeněk Dítě
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