Directed by:
Martin FričCinematography:
Jan StallichComposer:
Jan ŠímaCast:
Hugo Haas, Adina Mandlová, Karel Hašler, Václav Trégl, Milada Gampeová, Helena Monczáková, Božena Svobodová, Emilie Nitschová, František Kreuzmann st. (more)Plots(1)
Wealthy and ill Petr Kornel is not pleased with the carousing lifestyle of his nephew. He stops supporting him financially and demands that he change his name. Out of gratitude Kornel bequeaths a substantial sum of money to his nurse Alice with the condition that she marries. Petr Suk, as the nephew is now named, visits the doctor. In the waiting room his X-ray is mistakenly switched with one of another patient's. On the basis of this he presently learns that he is seriously ill and has only one day of life left to him. Therefore the young man sells all his belongings and sets out on one last binge. In his drunkenness he becomes mixed up in a minor traffic accident and is driven off to the hospital. There a nurse asks if as a dying man he would not perform a good deed and marry her colleague who will come into some money as a result. Petr agrees and without even knowing whom he has married takes off for home in the morning. The mistake with the X-rays is cleared up and Petr, who is healthy but completely ruined, sets off to his uncle's to request a loan. At his uncle's summer residence he meets Alice and falls in love with her. But before he can marry her he must first file for divorce. Alice discovers before he does that they are actually married and refuses the divorce. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Hugo Haas
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
The White Disease (1937)
Morality Above All Else (1937)
Long Live with Dearly Departed (1935)
Adina Mandlová
Austria-Hungary
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He Stood at the Till (1939)
Ducháček Will Fix It (1938)
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Karel Hašler
Austria-Hungary
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Long Live with Dearly Departed (1935)
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Václav Trégl
Austria-Hungary
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Těžká Barbora (1960) (theatrical recording)
Secluded, Near Woods (1976)
Milada Gampeová
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Ducháček Will Fix It (1938)
Valentin Dobrotivý (1942)
Morality Above All Else (1937)
Helena Monczáková
Austria-Hungary
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Okénko (1933)
Imperial and Royal Field Marshal (1930)
Božena Svobodová
Austria-Hungary
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Poor Girl (1929)
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Emilie Nitschová
Austria-Hungary
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František Kreuzmann st.
Austria-Hungary
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Ferdinand Hart
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Jaroslav Marvan
Austria-Hungary
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Čeněk Šlégl
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
He Stood at the Till (1939)
School Is the Foundation of Life (1938)
Station Master (1941)
Antonín Marlé
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
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Řeka (1933)
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Antonín Vaverka
Austria-Hungary
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The Man Who Laughs (1928)
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František Černý
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Jan W. Speerger
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Alois Dvorský
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Stanislav Neumann
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
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The Proud Princess (1952)
Bohdan Lachman
Austrian Empire
Best movies:
Karel Schleichert
Austrian Empire
Best movies:
The Lumberjack (1922)
The Sins of Love (1929)
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