The fifth rider is fear [videorecording] = A pátý Jez̧dec je Strach / Filmové Studio Barrandov uvádi Československý Filmexport ; produced by Carlo Ponti for Sigma III and Barrandov Studio ; written by Hana Belohradska, Zbynek Brynych, Ota Koval and Ester Krumbachova ; directed by Zbynek Brynych.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1964. "Newly remastered from a restored print from the National Archives"--Container. Special features: Onscreen introduction by Andrew Horton of Kinoeye; Facets Cine-Notes collectible booklet. Miroslav Machacek, Olga Scheinpflugova, Jiří Adamira, Illia Prachar, Josef Vinklar, Zdenka Prochazkova, Slavka Budinova, Jiri Virtala.
Summary:
An aging Jewish doctor is forbidden to practice medicine in Prague during the Nazi occupation. He is employed in a warehouse as a clerk, cataloguing confiscated Jewish property. When a partisan is wounded, the doctor reluctantly agrees to treat him. The doctor hides him in his run-down apartment buiding as he sneaks through the black-market underworld of Prague in search of morphine to ease the man's pain, ever fearful of informant neighbors and vigilant authorities.
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