Prague at Zero Hour
1963-07-06 · 79 min · ★ 9.0
Czech friends help refugees from Nazi Germany escape in 1939.
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- Directors
- Miloš Makovec
- Production companies
- Filmové studio Barrandov, DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme
- Countries
- Czechoslovakia, East Germany
- Status
- Released
Top Cast
Ivo PalecHonza Král - student
Jutta HoffmannToni Halbe - German student
Lubor TokošMUDr. Jirí Zeman
Vlastimil HašekJosef Hrbek - czech communist
Stefan LisewskiOtto Thüringer - German communist
Ernst KahlerHermann Schneider
Vladimír HlavatýBoiler Brázda
Horst PreuskerGruppenführer Balthazar
Josef BekKilian
Vladimír BrabecMUDr. Fahoun
Raoul SchránilConstable
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