Days of Betrayal
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This feature film based on the events of 1938 is a chronicle of the futile efforts of the Czechoslovak president Edvard Benes (Jirí Pleskot), politicians and ordinary citizens, to save the independence and the territorial integrity of the state from the advance of Hitler's Germany. On the 29th of March 1938 the leader of the Sudeten Germans Henlein (Werner Ehrlicher) has a meeting with Hitler (Gunnar Möller). Hitler orders him to intensify pressure on the Czechoslovak government. On the 24th of April in Carlsbad, the Sudetendeutsche Partei (Sudeten German Party) decides upon eight demands that are unacceptable to the Czechoslovak President, since they would ultimately lead to the break-up of the Republic. Benes still shows a certain willingness to negotiate, and Henlein resents this. The Germans are determined to make further negotiations impossible through incidents and violence.
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Renáta Doleželová
Martin Gregor
Miroslav Zounar
Jiří Wohanka
as Soldier
Erich Brauer
Oldřich Velen
Vladimír Hlavatý
Ladislav Lakomý
Jaroslav Dufek
Ota Sklenčka
Emil Horváth
Karel Hábl
Bořivoj Navrátil
Ivo Kubečka
Iva Hüttnerová
Jiří Holý
Jiří Krampol
Michal Pavlata
Vlastimil Čaněk
Siegfried Loyda
Bohumil Švarc
Josef Větrovec
Bohumil Šmída
Petr Oliva
Josef Somr
Zdeněk Mucha
as Soldier
František Zvarík
Roman Hemala
Wilhelm Koch-Hooge
Michal Dočolomanský
Gunnar Möller
Svatopluk Beneš
Gerhard Rachold
Vladimír Šmeral
Raoul Schránil
Ilja Prachař
Miloš Nedbal
Zdeněk Srstka
as Soldier
Jiří Pleskot
Vítězslav Jandák
Vladimír Salač
Karel Hlušička
as Commentary (voice)
Otakar Brousek
Josef Langmiler
Ladislav Frej
Emma Černá
Bohumil Pastorek
Vladislav Strzhelchik
Jaroslav Satoranský
Václav Knop
as Soldier
Čestmír Řanda
Jaromír Hanzlík
Oto Ševčík
Jan Teplý
Martin Štěpánek
Gustav Nezval
Stanislav Zindulka
