Where an Alibi Is Not Everything

“A bored housewife, a husband who married her for show, and a stupid boy who is full of himself because he is dating a Swiss woman.” The words of Inspector Tůma sound like they’re from a European melodrama, but in fact they come from a Czechoslovak crime story. A pair of detectives, counterfeit medicine, the high-society setting of a Karlovy Vary hotel, and Oldřich Nový as the aging hotel manager Kraus.

Cast

Karel Höger

Kpt. Tůma

Josef Bek

Lieutenant Frantisek Líbal

Oldřich Nový

Jindrich Kraus, director of the hotel

Anna Pitašová

Kraus' wife called Isa

Bohuš Záhorský

Dr. Vopálenský