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The Motive for Murder

4.2 average rating
★★★★★
4.2
Czech / 90 MIN. / 1975

The Genres

The Synopsis

A short story film depicting the three different faces of crime. In the short story "The Weekend", Karas kills a woman he raped some time ago in order to silence her. However, he accidentally kills another woman. In "Hostages", a drug addict, Chaban, terrorizes the hospital's operating team, but the disciplined doctors handle the difficult situation. In "The Pickpocket", the thief Benda wants to return to his trade immediately after his release, but his attempt ends tragically.

The Cast

Ilja PrachařAntonie HegerlikováHelga ČočkováZdena StudenkováVlado ČernýVlastimil HašekFrantišek HanusEva FriedrichováVáclav PostráneckýJan TeplýIvo NiederleJiří SchmitzerVáclav VydraKarel HáblMiroslav ChocholaOldřich VlčekKarel VítekJiří HálekBlanka WaleskáBohumil ŠmídaVáclav MarešGustav HeverleJaroslav MarešVlastimil ČaněkRudolf JelínekKarel FridrichJosef VeldaMiloš VávraMarie MotlováNina DivíškováJan FaltýnekKarel BělohradskýFrantišek RokosJiří WohankaMilena SvobodováMária NovákováSlávka KrauskopfováMartin LiškaMiloslav VajnarVladimír LemonNaděžda Prchalová-VicenováLubor KřížMiroslav StrnadVít FialaOtakar BartošJaroslav PavlisJosef BártaLeoš JirsákPetr ČepekJana BrejchováSlávka BudínováJosef SomrJosef AbrhámJiří BednářFilip RenčJosef LangmilerOldřich VelenViktor MaurerEugen JegorovVlastimil ČaněkRadim VašinkaStanislav LiteraViktor OčásekJosef ŠebekZdeněk SrstkaJaroslav TomsaKarel EngelLadislav GzelaLucie KrátkáJosef BlažekJiří FlíčekOtto OhnesorgMagda MaděrováKateřina MacháčkováTomáš TöpferJiří NěmečekTomáš SedláčekTomáš Sedláček

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