Days of Betrayal

{{short description|1973 film}}

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{{Infobox film

| name = Days of Betrayal

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| director = Otakar Vávra

| producer = Ladislav Kalas
Gustav Rohan

| writer = Miloslav Fábera
Otakar Vávra

| starring = Jiří Pleskot

| music =

| cinematography = Jaromír Sofr

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| released = {{Film date|df=yes|1973|4}}

| runtime = 227 minutes

| country = Czechoslovakia

| language = Czech

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Days of Betrayal ({{langx|cs|Dny zrady}}) is a 1973 Czechoslovakian drama film directed by Otakar Vávra.{{cite web|url=http://www.csfd.cz/film/9446-dny-zrady-i/ |title=Dny zrady |access-date=3 December 2011 |work=Czech Film Database}} The film was entered into the 8th Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Diploma.{{cite web|url=http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1973 |title=8th Moscow International Film Festival (1973) |access-date=3 January 2013 |work=MIFF |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116194922/http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1973 |archive-date=16 January 2013 }} It was also selected as the Czechoslovakian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 46th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences The film was meant as the first part of Vávra's "war trilogy" consisting of movies Days of Betrayal, Sokolovo and Liberation of Prague.