Movie: Švédská zápalka

Top 10 Billed Cast

Josef Somr
Josef Somr

Josef Abrhám
Josef Abrhám

Rudolf Hrušínský
Rudolf Hrušínský

Jiří Menzel
Jiří Menzel

Libuše Šafránková
Libuše Šafránková

Jan Schmid
Jan Schmid

Ladislav Křiváček
Ladislav Křiváček

Oldřich Vlach
Oldřich Vlach

Josef Fousek
Josef Fousek

Ladislav Županič
Ladislav Županič

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    The aging police commissioner, who has a twenty-five-year-old fiancée, Olga, is disturbed at his sixtieth birthday party by the news from the administrator Psekov that his master, the cornet Klyausov, has been murdered. A commission, headed by an investigating judge, is sent to the estate of the debauched nobleman. The decisive evidence is a Swedish match.

  • Release Date

    1983-05-21

  • Average

    3.3

  • Rating:

    1.6 starts
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  • Languages:

    Český
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