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A Game Without Rules

A Game Without Rules

1967 1h 29mCrime

A robbery in a Prague jeweler's shop results in the shop manager Kubát and his deputy Litera being shot and wounded. The culprits take the jewelery away in a stolen car and that very night hide the loot tens of kilometers outside Prague in a forest. Then the three robbers part with each other. One of them, Burian, leaves in the same car, the other two, Duda and Hovorka, take to flight in another car, which soon ends up in a car crash. Hovorka dies in the accident, but Duda survives and hides in an abandoned cottage. Burian is arrested, Duda is traced out by a police dog. Duda confesses to the robbery to the criminologist Málek, but refuses to say where is the jewelery. The robber then begins to shoot and Málek kills him in self-defense. The court fails to prove Litera's involvement in the robbery and the only one convicted is Burian. The disappointed Málek leaves the police and begins to work as a cab driver.

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Synopsis

A robbery in a Prague jeweler's shop results in the shop manager Kubát and his deputy Litera being shot and wounded. The culprits take the jewelery away in a stolen car and that very night hide the loot tens of kilometers outside Prague in a forest. Then the three robbers part with each other. One of them, Burian, leaves in the same car, the other two, Duda and Hovorka, take to flight in another car, which soon ends up in a car crash. Hovorka dies in the accident, but Duda survives and hides in an abandoned cottage. Burian is arrested, Duda is traced out by a police dog. Duda confesses to the robbery to the criminologist Málek, but refuses to say where is the jewelery. The robber then begins to shoot and Málek kills him in self-defense. The court fails to prove Litera's involvement in the robbery and the only one convicted is Burian. The disappointed Málek leaves the police and begins to work as a cab driver.

Behind it

Jindřich PolákJindřich PolákDirectorLuděk StaněkStoryVáclav ŠašekVáclav ŠašekStoryWiliam BukovýComposerRudolf MiličCinematography

Cast

Svatopluk MatyášSvatopluk Matyáš
Jiří AdamíraJiří Adamíra
Zdeněk Kryzánek
Karla ChadimováKarla Chadimová
Vladimír MenšíkVladimír Menšík
Josef BláhaJosef Bláha
Jan TřískaJan Tříska
František ŠťastnýFrantišek Šťastný
Stanislava BartošováStanislava Bartošová
Vojta Plachý-Tůma
Zdeněk Braunschläger
Jan Cmíral
Vladimír Chlouba
Karel Hovorka
Jiří Valenta
Ludmila RoubíkováLudmila Roubíková
Václav ŠašekVáclav Šašek
Vladimír Hrabánek

Director

Jindřich Polák

Writers

Luděk Staněk, Václav Šašek, Jindřich Polák

Release date

14 Apr 1967

Runtime

1h 29m

Studio

Filmové studio Barrandov

Language

Czech

Country

Czechoslovakia

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