Death Behind a Curtain

Death Behind a Curtain (1967) is a crime film directed by Antonín Kachlík rated 7.0/10.

Members of an organised group smuggling heroin from France to Italy send a new shipment of the drug via Sweden, the GDR and Czechoslovakia. A new ballet is about to premiere at the Fibich Theatre in Prague. However, the situation is complicated by a horrific event: prima ballerina Milada Havlová is found dead in her dressing room. The autopsy and the first analyses reveal that she died of a heroin overdose. Captain Chrástek is in charge of the investigation and believes that it is not an accident but murder. An investigation unfolds that reveals not only the strained relationships between the members of the ballet company, but above all an international criminal network...

Cast

Lubomír Lipský

choreograf Laube

Stanislav Šimek

tanečník Procházka

Miroslav Horníček

kapitán Chrástek

Jaroslav Satoranský

poručík Mareček

Lenka Fišerová

tanečnice Jana Pilátová

Gabriela Vránová

průvodkyně zájezdů Alena Volná

Květa Fialová

tanečnice Milada Havlová

Jiří Vršťala

pašerák Filip Lavedan

Waldemar Matuška

pašerák Orbigny

Jiří Mikota

nadporučík Antoš

Ilja Prachař

ředitel divadla Macek

Josef Langmiler

dirigent Krejčí