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IN THE SHADOW

VE STINU

By David ONDRICEK

BLEIBERG ENTERTAINMENT LLC - as SALES All rights, World / PROD

Thriller - Completed 2012

In 1950s Prague, a police officer investigates the robbery of a goldsmith that turns out to be part of a much bigger government plot beyond anything he anticipated.

- Year of production
- 2012
- Genres
- Thriller, Historical, Crime
- Countries
- CZECH REPUBLIC, POLAND, SLOVAKIA, ISRAEL
- Languages
- CZECH, GERMAN
- Budget
- 3 - 5 M$
- Duration
- 106 mn
- Director(s)
- David ONDRICEK
- Writer(s)
- Marek EPSTEIN, David ONDRICEK, Misha VOTRUBA
- Cast
- Sebastian KOCH, Ivan TROJAN, Sona NORISOVA
- Producer(s)
- Krystof MUCHA (Lucky Man Films), David ONDRICEK (Lucky Man Films), Ehud BLEIBERG (Bleiberg Entertainment)
- Synopsis
- Set in 1950s Prague, the film follows Hakl (4-time Czech Lion winner Ivan Trojan, "Vaclav"), a member of the Communist police force and his investigation of a seemingly mundane robbery at a goldsmith’s shop. His desire for the truth, though, leads him to new evidence indicating that the case is far more complicated than it seems. State Security takes over the investigation, replacing him with a German specialist in Zionist crime, Zenke (Sebastian Koch, the Academy Award-winning “The Lives of Others”), whose ominous arrival feels more than coincidental. Hakl defiantly continues his investigation on his own, sending both men on a collision course with governmental powers beyond anything they could have suspected.