Summary
Eva Sadková primarily worked as a director of television productions, but her film resumé is not devoid of success. Asides from the comedy film Dvanáct (Twelve with an Idea, 1964), based on a theatrical play by Pavel Kohout, her feature-film resume includes this successful crime drama from 1965. In the story, a murder is committed during a live Czechoslovak television broadcast of the detective play Případ pro tři vrahy (A Case of Three Murderers). Five million people watch as popular acting veteran Faltys is slain. Somebody has connected the armchair, in which the weak-hearted actor is due to sit, to a lethal electric current. Two criminologists – the circumspect captain Suda and his hot-blooded young partner Koval – try to solve the case. In the style of an old-fashioned detective story, all of those present at the murder are invited to witness a reconstruction within the television studio. Miroslav Macháček portrays the on-screen author of the fictional murder play. The two sharp-witted criminologists are played by Radovan Lukavský and Jan Tříska.
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