Your dead husband's secrets are about to bury you too.
Carefree young nurse Marta learns upon her husband's death that he was involved in all manner of criminal activity, which puts her life in danger.
Direction
Svoboda's claustrophobic framing traps Marta in every shot.
Acting
Kerova's unraveling composure carries the entire runtime.
Cinematography
Gray Prague becomes another antagonist.
Director
Jiří Svoboda
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot during normalization era Czechoslovakia; Svoboda smuggled political critique past censors by framing systemic corruption as crime thriller.
Zora Kerova later starred in Italian exploitation horror including 'Anthropophagus' and 'The New York Ripper'—this remains her most restrained performance.
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