Nov 28, 1941
89 min
Full-HD

The Hard Life of an Adventurer (1941)

A writer of pulp crime novels is drawn into a series of real crimes. This film was one of the first Czech attempts on a genre parody.

Category

Crime Comedy

Country

Czechoslovakia

Companies

Brom-film

Otomar Korbelář

Fred Flok alias Konzul Binder alias Komisar Niklas alias Ing. Benda

Ladislav Pešek

Karel Kryspín alias Charles Crispin

Adina Mandlová

Helena Rohanová

Jaroslav Marvan

Tichý, policejní inspektor

Karel Dostal

Dr. Seidl

Karel Černý

Vladimír Řepa

Karel Hradilák

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