The film depicts the fate of the residents of an apartment block in Prague’s Jewish quarter following the invasion by German troops in 1939. Among them is an elderly widow who had once disowned her son and now wishes to bring him to Brazil; there are also the owners of a stationery shop, who are driven to ruin by the German occupiers. The caretaker Glaser, who is of German descent, also comes under pressure when his son is arrested in a communist pub. To save his own skin, he informs on two young people who are active in the resistance.
as Old Woman Kauders
as Old Man Kauders
as Emil Kauders
as Karl Marek
as Olga Marek
as Leutnant Slezak
as Salomon Laufer
as Mali Laufer
as Ernst Laufer
as Frieda Laufer
as Marcel Lederer
as Bertha Lederer
as Krauthammer
as Klossmann
as Karl Glaser
as Leopold Glaser
as Anna Krummbein
as Leo Mautner
as Lilly Mautner
as Bozena
as Milan Schramek
as Behrend
as Kowlorat
as Caretaker Stepanek
as Confectioner Vokurka
as Lederer Junior
