Summary
When directing his popular crime dramas, Dušan Klein was fond of drawing inspiration from real cases, as he did for Případ mrtvých spolužáků (The Case of Dead Schoolmates, 1976). Like Případ mrtvého muže (The Case of the Dead Man, 1974), whose storyline was also created by Jindřich Kühnel, the film centres on a western agent. The businessman Schmidt (Milan Riehs) has previous form as a renegade. During the war, as a high school student in Kostelec, he denounced a schoolmate to the Nazis, leading to the youth’s arrest and execution. Now Schmidt tries to hide his guilt and to recruit new agents from the ranks of morally corrupted citizens. Thus he becomes the catalyst for several more violent deaths… Jaroslav Moučka once again plays the part of Major Sojka but Klein fails to create a character of the calibre of the crime investigator Major Zeman.
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