The Secret of Blood

The Secret of Blood
Directed by	Martin Frič
Written by	Vladimír Neff Otakar Kirchner Jan Werich Martin Frič
Starring	Vladimír Ráž
Cinematography	Jan Stallich
Edited by	Jan Kohout
Music by	Dalibor C. Vačkář
Production company	Studio uměleckého filmu
Distributed by	Československý státní film
Release date	25 December 1953 (1953-12-25)
Running time	101 minutes
Country	Czechoslovakia
Language	Czech

The Secret of Blood (Czech: Tajemství krve) is a 1953 Czechoslovak biographical drama film directed by Martin Frič about Czech doctor Jan Janský who discovered and classified the four different blood types.^[1] It competed at 14th Venice International Film Festival.

Cast

Vladimír Ráž as Dr. Jan Janský
Zdeněk Štěpánek as Prof. Kuffner
Jiřina Petrovická as Hedva
Vlastimil Brodský as Dr. Kozdera
Svatopluk Beneš as Dr. Regent
Rudolf Hrušínský as Dr. Kurzweil
Radovan Lukavský as Worker Kolčava
Vlasta Chramostová as Kolčavová
Rudolf Deyl as Batman Papík
Josef Hlinomaz as Alois
František Filipovský as Doctor at Lecture
Josef Kemr as Angry patient
Gustav Hilmar as Prof. Kyselka

References

^ "Tajemství krve". csfd.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 26 October 2020.

External links

The Secret of Blood at IMDb

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1930s	All for Love (1930) Poor Girl (1930) Him and His Sister (1931) The Good Soldier Schweik (1931) The Squeaker (1931) Business Under Distress (1931) Sister Angelika (1932) Wehe, wenn er losgelassen (1932) The Ringer (1932) Anton Spelec, Sharp-Shooter (1932) Life Is a Dog (1933) Public Not Admitted (1933) Pobočník Jeho Výsosti (1933) The Ideal Schoolmaster (1933) The Inspector General (1933) The Twelve Chairs (1933) The Ruined Shopkeeper (1933) The Last Man (1934) The Little Pet (1934) His Majesty's Adjutant (1934) The Double Fiance (1934) Workers, Let's Go (1934) The Eleventh Commandment (1935) Jánošík (1935) Hero for a Night (1935) Long Live with Dearly Departed (1935) Hrdina jedné noci (1935) Paradise Road (1936) The Seamstress (1936) Father Vojtechh (1936) Morality Above All Else (1936) The World Is Ours (1937) A Step into the Darkness (1937) Lidé na kře (1937) Lawyer Vera (1937) Tři vejce do skla (1937) Hordubalové (1938) Škola základ života (1938) Muž z neznáma (1939) Christian (1939) Jiný vzduch (1939) Cesta do hlubin študákovy duše (1939) Eva tropí hlouposti (1939)
1940s	Katakomby (1940) Muzikantská Liduška (1940) Baron Prášil (1940) Druhá směna (1940) The Hard Life of an Adventurer (1941) Auntie's Fantasies (1941) A Charming Man (1941) The Blue Star Hotel (1941) Valentin the Good (1942) Barbora Hlavsová (1943) The Second Shot (1943) Experiment (1943) The Respectable Ladies of Pardubice (1944) Dir zuliebe (1944) The Wedding Ring (1944) Černí myslivci (1945) Guard 13 (1946) Warning (1946) Čapek's Tales (1947) Lost in the Suburbs (1948) A Kiss from the Stadium (1948) The Poacher's Foster Daughter or Noble Millionaire (1949) Motorcycles (1949)
1950s	Steel Town (1950) May Events (1951) The Trap (1951) The Emperor and the Golem (1952) The Secret of Blood (1953) Dog's Heads (1955) Leave It to Me (1955) Focus (1956) The Flood (1958) Today for the Last Time (1958) The Princess with the Golden Star (1959)
1960s	Bílá spona (1960) Dařbuján a Pandrhola (1960) The King of Kings (1963) Hvězda zvaná Pelyněk (1964) People on Wheels (1966) Přísně tajné premiéry (1967) Nejlepší ženská mého života (1968)

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