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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.
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105 min
1955-10-28
Released
Czech
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Bedřich Smetana
Bettyna, Smetana's wife
writer Jan Neruda
dr. Ladislav Rieger
paní Fröjda
Karel Sabina
Antonín Dvořák
writer Eliška Krásnohorská
Otylie Malá
dr. K. Sladkovský
poet Vítězslav Hálek
Karel Purkyně
writer Josef Wenzig
composer Franz Liszt
count Harrach
count of Thurn-Taxis
Sophie, Smetana's daughter
Josef Schwarz, Žofi's fiancé
Ferdinandi
singer Eleonora of the Ehrenbergs
bandleader Maýr
rector of Pivoda
rector Krejčí
rector Thomé
referent Linhart
dr. Ambros
S. Goldsmith
Maid Baruska
Taxisová
Harrachová
music correspondent Werner
Mrs. Fröjda's husband
man in Sweden
man in Sweden
woman in Sweden
principal of comedians
village teacher
man in society
laundress
young villager
old villager
Zdeněk Fibich
Barbora Smetanová
Salomonová
butler
woman in the crowd at the National Theater
girl with a bouquet
Jeník
Dalibor (only playing)
plays and sings Libuše
sings and plays
sings and plays
sings and plays
sings and plays
sings and plays
sings and plays
sings and plays
sings and plays
sings and plays
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