

In Czechoslovakia, in the early 20th century, a seriously ill chemist recalls how he discovered a powerful explosive and how it ended up in the hands of anarchists.
Directed by Karel Feix, Otakar Vávra
User score
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Released
April 9, 1948
1h 38m
Czech

Karel Höger
Prokop

Florence Marly
Princess Wilhelmina Hagen

Jiří Plachý
D'Hemon

Nataša Tanská
Anna Tomes

František Smolík
Dr. Tomeš

Miroslav Homola
Jiří Tomeš

Eduard Linkers
Carson

Vlasta Fabianová
The Woman with the Veil

Jaroslav Průcha

Bedřich Vrbský
Baron Rohn

Karel Dostal
Professor in Dream

Bohuš Hradil
Holz

František Vnouček
Agitational Orator

Vítězslav Boček

Jiřina Petrovická
The Nurse

Jaroslav Zrotal
The Doctor

Zvonimir Rogoz
Antonín Jirsa

Magda Kopřivová
Zdeněk Hodr