1h 45m
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The film, in individual episodes, captures the fate of Bedřich Smetana from 1856 until the end of his life, from his young years until the moment when, exhausted by human and artistic hardship, he sees the fulfillment of his great dream, the opening of the National Theatre.
Karel Höger
Bedřich Smetana
Zdenka Procházková
Bettyna, Smetana's wife
JaromĂr Spal
writer Jan Neruda
Bedřich Karen
dr. Ladislav Rieger
Vlasta Fialová
panà Fröjda
Oldřich Lukeš
Karel Sabina
Eduard Cupák
AntonĂn Dvořák
Jana Rybářová
writer Eliška Krásnohorská
Eduard Kohout
dr. K. SladkovskĂ˝
ZdenÄ›k DĂtÄ›
poet VĂtÄ›zslav Hálek
Jiřà Vršťala
Karel PurkynÄ›
Karel Dostal
writer Josef Wenzig
Bedřich Vrbský
count Harrach
Ludmila Vendlová
Sophie, Smetana's daughter
Felix le Breux
bandleader Maýr
Gustav Hilmar
rector of Pivoda
Václav Vydra
rector KrejÄŤĂ
Jiřà Steimar
rector Thomé
Gustav Heverle
referent Linhart
Karel JiÄŤĂnskĂ˝
dr. Ambros
František Kreuzmann
S. Goldsmith
Nelly Gaierová
Taxisová
Eduard DubskĂ˝
music correspondent Werner
VladimĂr BorskĂ˝
Mrs. Fröjda's husband
Raoul Schránil
man in Sweden
František Filipovský
principal of comedians
František KovářĂk
village teacher
Miloš Nedbal
man in society
Ella Šárková
laundress
Petr HaniÄŤinec
young villager
Helena Krtičková
Salomonová
AntonĂn RĂ˝dl
Marta Májová
woman in the crowd at the National Theater
Rudolf Asmus
sings and plays