The American spy headquarters in West Germany are interested in information concerning Czechoslovak commercial activities in the Middle East. Agent Rudolf Karlík is forming a network of local agents in Prague. He tries to get his former friend Šimek, who served as a radio operator in the army, to work for him transmitting reports abroad. Engineer Jan Šimek, who lives and works in Ústí nad Labem, has just taken his wife to the maternity hospital. Karlík's visit takes him unawares and he refuses to work for him. Šimek had once got hold of some finances to help Karlík emigrate and the latter is now using this to blackmail him. Šimek had long since changed his views but is now forced to send out Karlík's reports. Counter-intelligence services start to seek out the transmitter. Šimek, however, decides to tell the secret police everything. He agrees to continue transmitting so that the entire network can be tracked down. Employees at the Fifth Division of the Interior Ministry prepare a trap which gradually brings Karlík and his colleagues out into the open. He is arrested along with a foreign trade employee who had been providing the reports. Engineer Šimek and his young wife are left to care for their new-born son in peace.
inženýr Jan Šimek
špion Rudolf Karlík alias Pilař
kapitán StB Václav Mrázek
poručík StB Karel Jonáš
Marta, Šimkova žena
prodavačka v bufetu Linhartová
řidič Stanislav Heran
kapitán Pecha, náčelník StB v Ústí nad Labem
Lange, příslušník výcvikového tábora
inženýr Knapeš
soused Doležal
příslušník StB Benda
příslušník StB Kučera
příslušník StB Sedlák
průvodkyně
instruktor
řidič sanitky
radistka
příslušník StB Valenta
vrátný v nemocnici
inženýr Hůrka
vedoucí kina
příslušník VB na motocyklu
vrátný v garážích
Doležalová
lékař v porodnici
doručovatel
dr. Poštolka, pracovník podniku KOVO
příslušník StB Novák
Šulc
Němec
příslušník StB
Eva Mičulková, Pavel Horák
Otakar Jiříček, Jaroslav Vlk
Vladimír Stárek
Páté oddělení
The Fifth Division
film
feature
drama, spy
Czechoslovakia
1960
1960
20 January 1961
Šebor – Bor, Vladimír Bor, Jiří Šebor
long
89 min
Czech
Festival: 4. festival českých a slovenských filmů Košice
1962
Košice / Czechoslovakia
Event: Státní ceny za rok 1961
1961
Praha / Czechoslovakia
Československý film