The Portrait
09/01/1948
People are afraid of the usurer Chazaj and are convinced that he is the bearer of evil. One day Chazaj pays a visit to the poor artist Simon Jordán and asks him to paint his portrait. Simon agrees but as he progresses with the work his mind conjures up terrible thoughts and in the end he commits suicide. The portrait looks lifelike and Chazaj is content with the results. After Chazaj's death the picture changes hands and brings misfortune to all who own it. The last victim is the young painter Roman who buys Chazaj's portrait in a bazaar. He finds a treasure in the frame and begins to live well off it. The comfortable life suits him so well that he rejects his original artistic aims and becomes a painter of fashionable kitsch.
Movie Information
Otomar Krejča
as Simon Jordán / Stepán Jordán
Luba Skořepová
as Martina Jordánová
Vladimír Šmeral
as Painter Roman
Ladislav Kulhánek
as Professor Mikulás
Karel Dostal
as Extortioner Chazaj
Rudolf Deyl
as Jáchym
Felix le Breux
as Marcel Bernard
Růžena Šlemrová
as Mrs. Viktorová
Ludmila Píchová
as Líza Viktorová
Emil Bolek
as Bussinesman Viktor
František Holar
as Mr. Zemblovský
Viktor Očásek
as Merchant Image
Bohumil Machník
as Homegrown
Vladimír Hlavatý
as
Jiří Těšík
as
Rudolf Hrušínský
as
Marie Nademlejnská
as
Břetislav Hrstka
as
Robert Morávek
as
Karel Hynek
as
Jan S. Kolár
as
Bohuslav Kupšovský
as
Arnošt Mirský
as
Marta Májová
as
Gabriel Hart
as
Milada Smolíková
as
Emanuel Hříbal
as
Bohumil Švarc
as
Arno Velecký
as
Blažena Slavíčková
as
Jan W. Speerger
as
Jaroslav Orlický
as
Antonín Soukup
as
Dagmar Toužimská
as
Zora Božinová
as
Ludmila Burešová
as
