Death Behind a Curtain

Death Behind a Curtain

1967 · 87 min · ★ 7.0 · Crime

Members of an organised group smuggling heroin from France to Italy send a new shipment of the drug via Sweden, the GDR and Czechoslovakia. A new ballet is about to premiere at the Fibich Theatre in Prague. However, the situation is complicated by a horrific event: prima ballerina Milada Havlová is found dead in her dressing room. The autopsy and the first analyses reveal that she died of a heroin overdose. Captain Chrástek is in charge of the investigation and believes that it is not an accident but murder. An investigation unfolds that reveals not only the strained relationships between the members of the ballet company, but above all an international criminal network...

Directed by Antonín Kachlík · Written by Pavel Hejcman

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Lubomír Lipský choreograf Laube
Stanislav Šimek tanečník Procházka
Miroslav Horníček kapitán Chrástek
Jaroslav Satoranský poručík Mareček
Lenka Fišerová tanečnice Jana Pilátová
Gabriela Vránová průvodkyně zájezdů Alena Volná
Květa Fialová tanečnice Milada Havlová
Jiří Vršťala pašerák Filip Lavedan
Waldemar Matuška pašerák Orbigny
Jiří Mikota nadporučík Antoš
Ilja Prachař ředitel divadla Macek
Josef Langmiler dirigent Krejčí

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