Death Behind a Curtain

Overview

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...

Details

Status

Released

Release date

March 17, 1967

Original language

Czech

Spoken languages

Czech

Countries

Czechoslovakia

Production

Filmové studio Barrandov

Cast

Květa Fialová,Dana Špédlová,Jiří Mikota,Milan Ječmínek,Antonín Jedlička,Waldemar Matuška,Bohumil Pastorek,Alena Kaslová,Stanislav Šimek,Karel Pavlíkand 38 more

Director

Antonín Kachlík

Writer

Antonín Kachlík,Pavel Hejcman,Vladimír Bor

Producer

Jiří Šebor

Cinematography

Jan Němeček

Music

Vladimír Sommer

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0171759