The Velvet Murders
2005•2h 10m•5.5•Released
CrimeDrama
A thriller loosely based on one of the most violent Czech criminal cases of the nineties, popularly known as the Orlík murders. The film delves into the motivation behind the killings, exposing their exceptional cruelty and an absolute absence of moral values. The perpetrators executed four people on their way to achieving material gain. Two of the bodies were found at the bottom of Orlík reservoir, the third perished in a bomb blast, and the forth was shot at home...
Director
Jiří Svoboda
Writer
Jiří Svoboda
Languages
Czech
Studio
Česká televize
Cast
Michal Dlouhý
Karel Hrubes
Jan Dolanský
Ludvík Krízek
Richard Krajčo
Igor Chvalkovsky
Alice Bendová
Iveta
Lucie Benešová
Irena
Petr Motloch
Pavel Řezníček
Luboš Veselý
Jiří Kodeš
Jiří Zeman
Lukáš Hlavica
Daniel Margolius
Zuzana Kocúriková
Dušan Urban
Ivan Urbánek
Production
Company
Česká televize
Producer
Hana Bílá
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