''The Mystery of the Blue Room'' (Czech: ''Záhada modrého pokoje'') is a 1933 Czechoslovak

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, directed by

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. It is a remake of the German film ''

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'' (1932). It stars

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, and

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Synopsis

At a

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, to impress his girlfriend a young man volunteers to spend the night in the famous Blue Room where a notorious murder took place many years before. In the morning he has completely vanished.

Cast

as Count Hellford *

as Valet Pavel *

as Inspector Gent *

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* Helena Sedláková as Betty *

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as Countess Hellford *

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as the Stranger *

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as Marie *

Jan Sviták Jan Sviták (23 December 1898 – 11 May 1945) was a Czech actor and film director. He was an important exponent of Czechoslovak film in the interwar period and during World War II. Sviták was murdered shortly after the liberation of Prague in ...

as Naval officer * Miroslav Svoboda as Tom Brandt * Bedřich Vrbský as Betectiv Brown *

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as Plainclothes Man

References

Bibliography

* Alfred Krautz. ''International Directory of Cinematographers Set and Costume Designers in Film: Czechoslovakia''. Saur, 1991.

External links

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