From My Life
28/10/1955
2h



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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.
Cast


Karel Höger
Bedřich Smetana


Zdenka Procházková
Bettyna, Smetana's wife


Jaromír Spal
writer Jan Neruda


Bedřich Karen
dr. Ladislav Rieger


Vlasta Fialová
paní Fröjda


Oldřich Lukeš
Karel Sabina


Eduard Cupák
Antonín Dvořák


Jana Rybářová
writer Eliška Krásnohorská
Libuše Matějová
Otylie Malá


Eduard Kohout
dr. K. Sladkovský


Zdeněk Dítě
poet Vítězslav Hálek


Jiří Vršťala
Karel Purkyně


Karel Dostal
writer Josef Wenzig
Štěpán Bulejko
composer Franz Liszt


Bedřich Vrbský
count Harrach
Rudolf Walter
count of Thurn-Taxis


Ludmila Vendlová
Sophie, Smetana's daughter
Václav Švorc
Josef Schwarz, Žofi's fiancé
Bohumil Aisman
Ferdinandi
Jarmila Pechová
singer Eleonora of the Ehrenbergs


Felix le Breux
bandleader Maýr


Gustav Hilmar
rector of Pivoda


Václav Vydra
rector Krejčí


Jiří Steimar
rector Thomé


Gustav Heverle
referent Linhart


Karel Jičínský
dr. Ambros


František Kreuzmann
S. Goldsmith
Saša Danešová
Maid Baruska


Nelly Gaierová
Taxisová
Milada Matysová
Harrachová


Eduard Dubský
music correspondent Werner


Vladimír Borský
Mrs. Fröjda's husband
Antonín Kandert
man in Sweden


Raoul Schránil
man in Sweden
Gabriela Bártlová-Buddeusová
woman in Sweden


František Filipovský
principal of comedians


František Kovářík
village teacher


Miloš Nedbal
man in society


Ella Šárková
laundress


Petr Haničinec
young villager
Josef Příhoda
old villager
Arnošt Martínek
Zdeněk Fibich
Emilie Urbanová-Jeřábková
Barbora Smetanová


Helena Krtičková
Salomonová
Emil Dlesk
butler
Otto Čermák


Antonín Rýdl


Marta Májová
woman in the crowd at the National Theater
Inka Vostřezová
girl with a bouquet
Jarmil Burghauser
Ivo Žídek
Jeník
Rudolf Cortés
Dalibor (only playing)
Marie Podvalová
plays and sings Libuše
Beno Blachut
sings and plays
Václav Bednář
sings and plays
Luděk Mandaus
sings and plays
Vojen Novák
sings and plays
Milada Čadikovičová
sings and plays
Jan Konstantin
sings and plays
Bohumír Vích
sings and plays
Josef Vojta
sings and plays


Rudolf Asmus
sings and plays
Karel Kocourek
Slávka Jägrová
Ladislav Kulhánek
Marie Lukášová
Václava Austová
Jiřina Součková
Karel Hirsch
Déda Papež
Hynek Němec
Adam Novák
Jaroslav Vágner
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