A Dead Man Among the Living (Czech: Mrtvý mezi à ¾ivými) is a 1949 Czech thriller film directed by Boà Âivoj Zeman and starring Karel Höger, Eduard Dubský and Vjaceslav Irmanov. The film is based on the 1931 novel To levende og en død (lit. Two living and one dead) by the Norwegian writer Sigurd Christiansen. Following an armed robbery at his office, a postal worker suffers a crisis of conscience.