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The generally respected director of a small-town savings bank, Hlavsa, commits embezzlement because of his wasteful and spoiled wife, and when the situation cannot be saved, he shoots himself. His mother, a simple village woman, takes in her widowed daughter-in-law and teenage grandson on the condition that they both help her to compensate for all the damage. For the city lady, the hard village work is suffering. The same goes for young Bořík, a gifted pianist who finds it difficult to give up his dreams of an artistic career...Read moreLess
The generally respected director of a small-town savings bank, Hlavsa, commits embezzlement because of his wasteful and spoiled wife, and when the situation cannot be saved, he shoots himself. His mother, a simple village woman, takes in her widowed daughter-in-law and teenage grandson on the condition that they both help her to compensate for all the damage. For the city lady, the hard village work is suffering. The same goes for young Bořík, a gifted pianist who finds it difficult to give up his dreams of an artistic career...
The story
The generally respected director of a small-town savings bank, Hlavsa, commits embezzlement because of his wasteful and spoiled wife, and when the situation cannot be saved, he shoots himself. His mother, a simple village woman, takes in her widowed daughter-in-law and teenage grandson on the condition that they both help her to compensate for all the damage. For the city lady, the hard village work is suffering. The same goes for young Bořík, a gifted pianist who finds it difficult to give up his dreams of an artistic career...
Cast & crew
Terezie BrzkováBarbora Hlavsová
František SmolíkVojtěch Hlavsa
Jiřina ŠtěpničkováKlára Hlavsová
Rudolf HrušínskýBořík, syn Hlavsových
Jindřich Plachtapenzista Žanta
Jaroslav Průchastarosta Prouza
Stella MájováVlasta Kvěchová
František Filipovskýklenotník Bartyzal
Karel DostalLukáš Hlavsa
Eliška KuchařováEliškaExplore the crew
- Director
- Martin Frič
- Screenplay
- Karel Steklý
- Editor
- Jan Kohout
- Director of Photography
- Karel Degl
- Director of Photography
- Jaroslav Blažek
- Original Music Composer
- Miloš Smatek
- Original Music Composer
- Jaroslav Křička