Where an Alibi Is Not Everything

“A bored housewife, a husband who married her for show, and a stupid boy who is full of himself because he is dating a Swiss woman.” The words of Inspector Tůma sound like they’re from a European melodrama, but in fact they come from a Czechoslovak crime story. A pair of detectives, counterfeit medicine, the high-society setting of a Karlovy Vary hotel, and Oldřich Nový as the aging hotel manager Kraus.

Crime

Karel Höger

(Kpt. Tůma)

Josef Bek

(Lieutenant Frantisek Líbal)

Oldřich Nový

(Jindrich Kraus, director of the hotel)

Anna Pitašová

(Kraus' wife called Isa)

Bohuš Záhorský

(Dr. Vopálenský)

Jan Tříska

(laboratory assistant Mirek Zach)

Miloš Nedbal

(magician Bonhardi (Ladislav Valenta))

Bohumil Šmída

(thief Josef Sesták)

Oldřich Velen

(Lieutenant Jiri Florian)

Marcela Martínková

(laboratory assistant Zdena Fisárková)

Josef Abrhám

(witness Jirka Ruml)

Libuše Geprtová

(Ruml's girl)

Rudolf Deyl

Anna Gabrielová

(Krystofová)

Hana Brožová

(Golf player)

Miloslav Lipinský

(Dancer)

Věra Burešová

(Dancer)

Alena Martinovská

(Dancer)

Antonín Kandert

(warehouseman Rendl)

František Miroslav Doubrava

(member of the VB)

Ota Motyčka

(Inspektor)

František Hadrava

(chief)

Josef Hlinomaz

(Receptionist)

Bohumil Honsa

(Porter)

Marta Kaňovská

(stranger)

Eva Marie Kavanová

(Golf player)

Lubomír Kostelka

(chief)

František Kovářík

(old Mr. Mensík)

Věra Langrová

(Receptionist)

Václav Lohniský

(Receptionist)

Vilém Pruner

(Waiter)

Zdeněk Řehoř

(Lokvenc)

Sonja Sázavská

(bartender Lenka)

George Skalenakis

(stranger)

Otto Šimánek

(Moravec)

Zdeněk Týle

(Lifftboy)

Gustav Nezval

(Chief of the VB)

Věra Hanslíková

(Woman at interrogation)

Gabriela Bártlová-Buddeusová

(Fikjzlová - woman at interrogation)

Milka Balek-Brodská

(Rezácová - woman at interrogation)

Milena Geislerová

(Stranger)

Václav Wasserman

(Guest at the hotel)

Karel Peyr

(Sochor - man at interrogation)

Martin Vačkář

(Pikolík)