Filmed during the Nazi occupation, this panoramic drama set in a Prague department store follows the divergent destinies of four female coworkers, each of whom seeks happiness in a different way.
Rudolf Bartoš, the owner of a farm, quarry and factory, is extremely rich, however, he is unapproachable and irritable, and the dread of his employees. One day he falls down a steep slope by a river and hurts himself. The quarryman Fábera finds him groaning in pain and takes him to his cottage.
Rón
Adam Kavalír returns from abroad to take over the family factory from his father. But as a consequence of his father's bohemian lifestyle the business is so far in debt that the Kavalírs even lose their villa and must find a place to sublet. Mrs. Trojanová is no longer up to managing her pension, the co-owner of which is none other than her peevish daughter Eva, and she is looking for a capable manager. Adam applies for the position and is accepted.
Lorenz
Franz Schranel
Cervantes
Woman concert star seeks to connect with her adult daughter, by her former marriage to a staid industrialist who has kept the two apart since the girl was very small, and receives inadvertent help from the industrialist's just-fired employee who has fallen in love with the girl.
Minister
Король Пуэрто-Рико - Фернандо XXIII, просит известного детектива Холмса достать ему двойника, потому что боится покушения. Холмс находит в Бродеке, Моравия, печально известного должника Франтишека Леличека, который похож на яйца и яйца для короля. Леличек, преследуемый кредиторами, принимает предложение. Красивая и молодая королева отказалась уйти в безопасное изгнание со своим трусливым мужем, и Леличек энергично берёт на себя его роль.
The troubled situation of a provincial actor and his actress wife who come to the city. The actor is suspected of attacking another actor who admires the actress.
1st Lieutenant
Skid-row epic about a lawyer's decline.
The Czech Film Archive and Filmarchiv Austria both hold the film in their collections.
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