Death Behind a Curtain
5.1
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...
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Cast
60 people
Lubomír Lipský
choreograf Laube
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Stanislav Šimek
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Jan Němeček
Antonín Kachlík
Vladimír Bor
Miroslav Horníček
kapitán Chrástek
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poručík Mareček
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Vladimír Sommer
Lenka Fišerová
tanečnice Jana Pilátová
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Gabriela Vránová
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F. L. Věk
Antonín Kachlík Director · Vladimír Bor Screenplay Pavel Hejcman Story
First release March 17, 1967 · Produced in XC · Production Barrandov Studios, Ústřední půjčovna filmů Praha
Production
Filmové studio Barrandov
Production
Barrandov Studios
Production
Ústřední půjčovna filmů Praha
Production
XC
Produced in
Anděl hraje na violu
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Languages
Original title
Smrt za oponou
Original language
Czech
Spoken on screen
Czech
Release dates
Slovakia · March 17, 1967
XC · March 17, 1967
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Hungary
September 19, 1970 · TV premiere
Russia
November 20, 1967
Russia
November 20, 1967 · Theatrical
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