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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Gustav Nezval
Vladimír Hlavatý
Ivo Kubečka
Martin Gregor
Václav Knop
as Soldier
Raoul Schránil
Čestmír Řanda
Oldřich Velen
Jiří Pleskot
Josef Větrovec
Bohumil Pastorek
Miloš Nedbal
Jiří Krampol
Gunnar Möller
Emma Černá
Ladislav Frej
Gerhard Rachold
Jaroslav Dufek
Miroslav Zounar
Zdeněk Mucha
as Soldier
Svatopluk Beneš
Jiří Holý
Jiří Wohanka
as Soldier
Bohumil Šmída
Karel Hlušička
as Commentary (voice)
Ilja Prachař
Petr Oliva
Wilhelm Koch-Hooge
František Zvarík
Roman Hemala
Martin Štěpánek
Jaroslav Satoranský
Josef Langmiler
Oto Ševčík
Otakar Brousek
Renáta Doleželová
Iva Hüttnerová
Michal Pavlata
Vítězslav Jandák
Bohumil Švarc
Jaromír Hanzlík
Vladislav Strzhelchik
Siegfried Loyda
Jan Teplý
Karel Hábl
Zdeněk Srstka
as Soldier
Bořivoj Navrátil
Vladimír Šmeral
Ota Sklenčka
Michal Dočolomanský
Stanislav Zindulka
Josef Somr
Vladimír Salač
Ladislav Lakomý
Emil Horváth
Vlastimil Čaněk
Erich Brauer
