The Evidence Given by Dead Eyes

Retired criminal investigator Gaudl does not like the husband of his niece Hedvika, a good-looking, but already ageing editor. He suspects that, seventeen years ago, the elegant employee of a foreign trade corporation and university professor Jiří Horáček married Hedvika for her considerable wealth. There seems to be no problem in their childless marriage, but Horáček has a mistress, who even lives in their villa. It is Daniela, the young relative of the Horáčeks' housekeeper, for whom the housekeeper has arranged lodging at the villa. When the girl gets pregnant, Jiří decides to divorce his wife. In Hedvika's car on the way back from a party at the director's cottage, the couple quarrel and run over a hitch-hiker standing by the road. Secretly, Hedvika takes photographs of Jiří dragging the girl's dead body into a ditch beside the road. Horáček tries to produce an alibi for himself and returns back to the cottage in his car. But Hedvika shows him the photographs and he realizes she has him cornered. He sets a trap for her - and she gets killed by a faulty light bulb in the bathroom after he leaves for work. At her funeral, Gaudl meets graphic designer Březina. Annoyed by her husband, Hedvika spent the last night before her death with Březina and, having got drunk, told him everything about the car accident. In the meantime, Daniela finds the negative and the photographs hidden away in the frame of Hedvika's portrait. She realizes that Jiří has killed his wife and runs away from him, hiding in her room. Then she opens the telephone directory. But the old Gaudl, standing in front of the villa, already knows how to convict Jiří.