In Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, a doctor-turned-warehouse employee reluctantly agrees to treat a gravely wounded political fugitive, putting himself and everyone living in his building complex in danger.
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Miroslav Macháček Olga Scheinpflugová Jiří Adamíra Zdenka Procházková Josef Vinklář Ilja Prachař Jana Prachařová Jiří Vršťala Tomáš Hádl Eva Svobodová Karel Nováček Čestmír Řanda Slávka Budínová Alexandra Myšková Iva Janžurová Jana Břežková Růžena Preisslerová Jiří Ostermann Štěpánka Cittová Otto Sattler Arnošt Vrána Helena Růžičková Ivo Gübel Ladislav Potměšil František Chocholatý Lída Matoušková Zdeněk Hodr Eva Rohanová Helena Pejšková Karel Šmíd Jiří Pleskot Mirko Musil Roman Hemala Milan Mach Zdeněk Jiřičný František Sadílek J. Koval J. Kronus J. Sadílek E. Kohn Anny Freyová M. Žára
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