The Key

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The Key

1971

1h 37m

5.3(3 votes)

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Jan Zika is the legendary hero of the communist resistance movement during World War II and leading functionary of the second underground Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.

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František Vicena

Jan Zika

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Wilhelm Koch-Hooge

Friedrich

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Zdeněk Kampf

Nergl

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Vlasta Vlasáková

Milada

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Eva Jiroušková

Blazena Preislerová

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Oldřich Velen

Josef Preisler

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Jürgen Frohriep

Nemecký chirurg

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Miloslav Holub

Jankovský

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Alena Walterová

Ziková

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Jindřich Narenta

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Oto Ševčík

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Josef Hajdučík

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Josef Beyvl

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Zdeněk Kryzánek

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Miloš Vavruška

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Jana Walterová

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Richard Záhorský

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Gustav Heverle

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Vladimír Leraus

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Josef Chvalina

Doktor

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Zdeněk Dřevojánek

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Oldřich Lukeš

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Vítězslav Jandák

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Jan Dejmek

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Vladimír Ptáček

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Milan Hlavín

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Marta Richterová

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Jana Posseltová

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Milena Kaplická

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Jaroslav Blažek

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Eduard Pavlíček

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Jiřina Bílá

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Jitka Zelenohorská

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Václav Švec

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Josef Burda

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Bohumil Koška

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Vladimír Navrátil

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Viktor Maurer

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Jan Pohan

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Karel Pavlík

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Ladislav Vičar

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Jiří Vondrovič

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Adolf Filip

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Vladimír Zoubek

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Josef Žoha

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Mirko Musil

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Miroslav Müller

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Zdeněk Braunschläger

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Zdeněk Novotný

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Antonín Šimon

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Alexandr Ovčarič

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A. A. Dajmičenko

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Vladimír Vodeničarov

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Štěpán Bulejko

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František Kubíček

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Pavel Jiras

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Jaromír Šnajdr

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Jiří Koutný

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Eugen Jegorov

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Věra Kovářová

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Ludvík Pozník

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Vladimír Svoboda

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Petr Skarke

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Vladimír Štros

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Miloslav Štibich

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Miloslav Šindler

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Magdalena Šmídová

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Roman Hemala

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Antonín Ženíšek

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Karel Voska

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Karel Havlíček

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Jiří Cimický

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Oleg Reif

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Jaroslav Tomsa

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Jaroslav Kovář

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Slávka Hamouzová

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Václav Fišer

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Josef Bárta

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Václav Luks

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Miroslav Rous

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Jiří Havel

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Jaroslav Synák

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Blažena Vernerová

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Jiřina Zemanová

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Vlastimila Vlková

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Bára Štěpánová

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Jaroslava Závodská

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Tomáš Jaroš

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Jaroslav Klenot

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Otakar Rademacher

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Jindřich Sejk

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Josef Barák

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Antonín Pokorný

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Ivan Růžička

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Jiřina Wasserbauerová

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Jiří Němeček

Commentary (voice)

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Rudolf Jelínek

radista Černý (voice)

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