Directed by:
Vladimír ČechCinematography:
Václav HuňkaComposer:
Štěpán LuckýCast:
František Vicena, Wilhelm Koch-Hooge, Zdeněk Kampf, Vlasta Vlasáková, Eva Jiroušková, Oldřich Velen, Jürgen Frohriep, Miloslav Holub, Jindřich Narenta (more)Plots(1)
Biographical drama The Key is the first film that fully complies with the demands of the Normalisation period which started setting in at the time. A film about communist official and anti-Nazi resistance fighter Jan Zika shamelessly manipulates facts, promoting Communist ideology and foisting the idea of Soviet Union's indispensability. Luckily, Čech's film is an exceptionally boring debacle. (Summer Film School)
(more)Cast
Ladislav Vičar
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Looking Back (1968)
Místenka bez návratu (1964)
Případ mrtvých spolužáků (1976)
![Jiří Vondrovič](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/274/274845_01d41b.jpg)
Jiří Vondrovič
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Nebe a dudy (1941)
The Blue Star Hotel (1941)
Poslední mohykán (1947)
![Adolf Filip](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/437/164437981_c6c1f5.jpg)
Adolf Filip
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Rozčarovaní (1982) (TV movie)
How to Drown Dr. Mracek, the Lawyer (1974)
Long Live Ghosts! (1977)
Vladimír Zoubek
Best movies:
The Petroleum Lamps (1971)
Dítě (1973) (TV movie)
Jarní vody (1968)
Josef Žoha
Best movies:
Klíč (1971)
![Mirko Musil](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/271/271931_ac228d.jpg)
Mirko Musil
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Give the Devil His Due (1984)
Jako kníže Rohan (1983) (TV movie)
Sňatky z rozumu (1968) (series)
![Zdeněk Braunschläger](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/268/268660_65ed20.jpg)
Zdeněk Braunschläger
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Revizor (1971) (theatrical recording)
The Stolen Airship (1966)
On the Trail of Blood (1969)
Zdeněk Novotný
Best movies:
Forbidden Dreams (1986)
Riders in the Sky (1968)
You Are a Widow, Sir (1970)
Antonín Šimon
Best movies:
Days of Betrayal II. (1973)
Days of Betrayal I. (1973)
Klíč (1971)
Alexandr Ovčarič
Best movies:
Days of Betrayal II. (1973)
Days of Betrayal I. (1973)
Klíč (1971)
Vladimír Svoboda
Best movies:
The Secret of a Great Narrator (1971)
Concert at the End of Summer (1979)
Klíč (1971)
A. A. Dajmičenko
Best movies:
Klíč (1971)
Vladimír Vodeničarov
Bulgaria
Best movies:
Klíč (1971)
![Štěpán Bulejko](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/274/274281_7b368d.jpg)
Štěpán Bulejko
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Higher Principle (1960)
Distant Journey (1948)
Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea (1977)
![Pavel Jiras](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/036/677/36677270_fff73b.jpg)
Pavel Jiras
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Best movies:
Give the Devil His Due (1984)
Adela Has Not Had Her Supper Yet (1978)
On the Comet (1970)
![František Kubíček](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/276/276232_aaefb3.jpg)
František Kubíček
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
The Cremator (1968)
Jára Cimrman Lying, Sleeping (1983)
The Good Soldier Schweik (1956)
Jaromír Šnajdr
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
The Guard (1970)
Diagnóza smrti (1979)
Radost až do rána (1978)
![Jiří Koutný](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/274/274947_170792.jpg)
Jiří Koutný
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Four Murders Are Enough, Darling (1970)
The White Lady (1965)
Na tý louce zelený (1972) (theatrical recording)
![Eugen Jegorov](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/268/268161_bc0470.jpg)
Eugen Jegorov
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
My Sweet Little Village (1985)
Secluded, Near Woods (1976)
Forbidden Dreams (1986)
Věra Kovářová
Best movies:
Klíč (1971)