Directed by:
Viktor PolesnýScreenplay:
Václav ŠašekCinematography:
David PloyharComposer:
Zdenek MertaCast:
Jaroslav Plesl, Karel Heřmánek ml., Karel Roden, Gabriela Míčová, František Němec, Jan Kačer, Petr Štěpánek, Jiří Plachý ml., Ondřej Kavan, Luboš Veselý (more)Plots(1)
Murder in Polná is an exciting drama of a detective story. In 1899, on Holy Saturday on the road between the village of Věžnička and the town of Polná, the dead body of the young seamstress Agnes Hrůzová was found. She was nineteen years old. She had a deep stab wound in her throat and probably bled to death. The murderer didn't rape her. Local doctors seemed to think that there wasn't enough clotted blood on the scene and there was a ready answer to the question of where the "missing" blood was; the Jews had used it to make their Passover matzo. And on hand was her potential murderer: the sassy and very clever young Leopold Hilsner, a Jewish tramp and beggar... (Zlín Film Festival)
(more)Cast
Jaroslav Plesl
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Příběhy obyčejného šílenství (2009) (theatrical recording)
Teremin (2010) (theatrical recording)
The Defender (2021) (series)
Karel Heřmánek ml.
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Dokonalá svatba (2010) (theatrical recording)
The Beauty Inside (2015)
Anthropoid (2016)
Karel Roden
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
The Bourne Supremacy (2004)
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1999) (series)
Marek Ztracený v Edenu (2023) (concert)
Gabriela Míčová
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Odpad, město, smrt (2013) (theatrical recording)
Proces (2013) (theatrical recording)
Spílání publiku 2010 (2013) (theatrical recording)
František Němec
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Best movies:
Hamlet (1986) (theatrical recording)
How to Get Dad Into Reform School (1978) (TV movie)
The Ear (1970)
Jan Kačer
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Král Lear (2003) (theatrical recording)
The Valley of the Bees (1967)
Death Is Called Engelchen (1963)
Petr Štěpánek
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Hamlet (1986) (theatrical recording)
Major Case Squad (2014) (series)
Noc pastýřů (1993) (TV movie)
Jiří Plachý ml.
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Cyrano z Bergeracu (1986) (theatrical recording)
Král Krysa (1979) (theatrical recording)
Gazdina roba (1992) (theatrical recording)
Ondřej Kavan
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Murder in Polná (2016) (TV movie)
Volga (2023) (series)
Smyčka (2009) (TV movie)
Luboš Veselý
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Major Case Squad (2014) (series)
Burning Bush (2013) (TV movie)
Raskolnikov: jeho zločin a jeho trest (2009) (theatrical recording)
Jan Novotný
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Sluha dvou pánů (2000) (theatrical recording)
Sluha dvou pánů (2010) (theatrical recording)
Král Lear (2003) (theatrical recording)
Simona Kopecká
Best movies:
Murder in Polná (2016) (TV movie)
Johanna Tesařová
Austria
Best movies:
The Snowdrop Festival (1983)
Rok na vsi (1995) (theatrical recording)
Návštěva z vesmíru (1977) (TV movie)
Rostislav Novák ml.
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Major Case Squad (2014) (series)
Burning Bush (2013) (TV movie)
The Defender (2021) (series)
Miroslav Etzler
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Rok na vsi (1995) (theatrical recording)
Cops and Robbers (2001) (series)
Even Mice Belong in Heaven (2021)
Zdeněk Dušek
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Best movies:
Major Case Squad (2014) (series)
The Cow (1993)
The Millennial Bee (1983)
Dana Sedláková
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Monahikoi typoi (2000)
Stairway to Power (2023) (series)
Murder in Polná (2016) (TV movie)
Stanislav Zindulka
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Major Case Squad (2014) (series)
Forbidden Dreams (1986)
Burning Bush (2013) (TV movie)
Vladimír Polívka
Switzerland
Best movies:
Elegance molekuly (2024) (theatrical recording)
Murder in Polná (2016) (TV movie)
Manon Lescaut (2021)
Petr Šmíd
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Murder in Polná (2016) (TV movie)
Jednotka intenzivní lásky (2017) (theatrical recording)
Jan Palach (2018)