The film depicts the fate of the residents of an apartment block in Prague’s Jewish quarter following the invasion by German troops in 1939. Among them is an elderly widow who had once disowned her son and now wishes to bring him to Brazil; there are also the owners of a stationery shop, who are driven to ruin by the German occupiers. The caretaker Glaser, who is of German descent, also comes under pressure when his son is arrested in a communist pub. To save his own skin, he informs on two young people who are active in the resistance.
Edith Schultze-Westrum
Old Woman Kauders
František Filipovský
Old Man Kauders
Ladislav Kríz
Emil Kauders
Wolfgang Kieling
Karl Marek
Rosel Schäfer
Olga Marek
Helmut Schmid
Leutnant Slezak
Walter Taub
Salomon Laufer
Hana Vítová
Mali Laufer
Peter Herrmann
Ernst Laufer
Tamara Kafková
Frieda Laufer
Martin Gregor
Marcel Lederer
Margrit Weiler
Bertha Lederer
Walter Buschhoff
Krauthammer
Jiří Holý
Klossmann
Rudolf Hrušínský
Karl Glaser
