
28/10/1955
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
as Bedřich Smetana

Zdenka Procházková
as Bettyna, Smetana's wife

Jaromír Spal
as writer Jan Neruda

Bedřich Karen
as dr. Ladislav Rieger

Vlasta Fialová
as paní Fröjda

Oldřich Lukeš
as Karel Sabina

Eduard Cupák
as Antonín Dvořák

Jana Rybářová
as writer Eliška Krásnohorská

Libuše Matějová
as Otylie Malá

Eduard Kohout
as dr. K. Sladkovský

Zdeněk Dítě
as poet Vítězslav Hálek

Jiří Vršťala
as Karel Purkyně

Karel Dostal
as writer Josef Wenzig

Štěpán Bulejko
as composer Franz Liszt

Bedřich Vrbský
as count Harrach

Rudolf Walter
as count of Thurn-Taxis

Ludmila Vendlová
as Sophie, Smetana's daughter

Václav Švorc
as Josef Schwarz, Žofi's fiancé

Bohumil Aisman
as Ferdinandi

Jarmila Pechová
as singer Eleonora of the Ehrenbergs

Felix le Breux
as bandleader Maýr

Gustav Hilmar
as rector of Pivoda

Václav Vydra
as rector Krejčí

Jiří Steimar
as rector Thomé

Gustav Heverle
as referent Linhart

Karel Jičínský
as dr. Ambros

František Kreuzmann
as S. Goldsmith

Saša Danešová
as Maid Baruska

Nelly Gaierová
as Taxisová

Milada Matysová
as Harrachová

Eduard Dubský
as music correspondent Werner

Vladimír Borský
as Mrs. Fröjda's husband

Antonín Kandert
as man in Sweden

Raoul Schránil
as man in Sweden

Gabriela Bártlová-Buddeusová
as woman in Sweden

František Filipovský
as principal of comedians

František Kovářík
as village teacher

Miloš Nedbal
as man in society

Ella Šárková
as laundress

Petr Haničinec
as young villager

Josef Příhoda
as old villager

Arnošt Martínek
as Zdeněk Fibich

Emilie Urbanová-Jeřábková
as Barbora Smetanová

Helena Krtičková
as Salomonová

Emil Dlesk
as butler

Otto Čermák
as

Antonín Rýdl
as

Marta Májová
as woman in the crowd at the National Theater

Inka Vostřezová
as girl with a bouquet

Jarmil Burghauser
as

Ivo Žídek
as Jeník

Rudolf Cortés
as Dalibor (only playing)

Marie Podvalová
as plays and sings Libuše

Beno Blachut
as sings and plays

Václav Bednář
as sings and plays

Luděk Mandaus
as sings and plays

Vojen Novák
as sings and plays

Milada Čadikovičová
as sings and plays

Jan Konstantin
as sings and plays

Bohumír Vích
as sings and plays

Josef Vojta
as sings and plays

Rudolf Asmus
as sings and plays

Karel Kocourek
as

Slávka Jägrová
as

Ladislav Kulhánek
as

Marie Lukášová
as

Václava Austová
as

Jiřina Součková
as

Karel Hirsch
as

Déda Papež
as

Hynek Němec
as

Adam Novák
as

Jaroslav Vágner
as
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