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Professor Karas is widely known as enthusiastic propagator of the motto "Morality Above All Else". He guides his students as well as his own family to live a morally decent life. One day he has an unexpected visit. It's his illegitimate daughter Vera, who is proof of his thoughtless youth. Mr. Karas know that she can ruin his image, thus he decides to keep her a secret and asks her to leave. Instead of leaving she takes a position of a governess in his own family without letting him know. Mr. Karas realizes that he must reveal the truth sooner or later, but he doesn't have enough courage to do so. As he postpones it, he is more and more scared to come to his own home.Read moreLess
Professor Karas is widely known as enthusiastic propagator of the motto "Morality Above All Else". He guides his students as well as his own family to live a morally decent life. One day he has an unexpected visit. It's his illegitimate daughter Vera, who is proof of his thoughtless youth. Mr. Karas know that she can ruin his image, thus he decides to keep her a secret and asks her to leave. Instead of leaving she takes a position of a governess in his own family without letting him know. Mr. Karas realizes that he must reveal the truth sooner or later, but he doesn't have enough courage to do so. As he postpones it, he is more and more scared to come to his own home.
The story
Professor Karas is widely known as enthusiastic propagator of the motto "Morality Above All Else". He guides his students as well as his own family to live a morally decent life. One day he has an unexpected visit. It's his illegitimate daughter Vera, who is proof of his thoughtless youth. Mr. Karas know that she can ruin his image, thus he decides to keep her a secret and asks her to leave. Instead of leaving she takes a position of a governess in his own family without letting him know. Mr. Karas realizes that he must reveal the truth sooner or later, but he doesn't have enough courage to do so. As he postpones it, he is more and more scared to come to his own home.
Cast & crew
Hugo HaasProfessor Antonín Karas
Světla SvozilováKarolína Karasová - wife
Adina MandlováEva Karasová - daughter
Ladislav BoháčMUDr. Jílkovský
Saša RašilovJUDr. Mach - friend
Věra FerbasováVera Gregorova - illegitimate daughter
Zdeňka BaldováMr. Drázná - Executive Association for the Advancement of morality
Marie PtákováMr. Roubalová - Executive Association for the Advancement of moralityExplore the crew
- Director
- Martin Frič
- Director of Photography
- Ferdinand Pečenka
- Original Music Composer
- Roman Blahník
- Original Music Composer
- R. A. Dvorský
- Editor
- Jan Kohout
- Screenplay
- Martin Frič
- Screenplay
- Hugo Haas
- Screenplay
- Otakar Vávra