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- Poor girl turns the no-good son of her employer to a man.
- "Grandmother" is a highly romanticized autobiographical novel by a Czech 19th century writer, Bozena Nemcova. It's a classical, compulsory reading in Czech schools, about a wise, working-class woman, happier in her simplicity and good heart than the nobles whom she serves.
- Duchacek is the employee in the law company. As a faithful employee he is working hard to help his boss. And when it seems almost impossible to collect enough money in time, you should give this task to Duchacek.
- When a young woman he loves is promised by her father to an older widower, the youth decides to leave his village and go off to war rather than see this happen.Will the girl's grandmother be able to step in and help?
- Classic comedy with famous Vlasta Burian in the lead role tells us about an undertaker who loves his job very much and who during a wedding which he mistakenly considers as a funeral decides to take advantage of an old man and impersonate him in an insurance deception.
- Rudolf Barrtos, the owner of a farm, quarry and factory, is extremely rich, however, he is unapproachable and irritable, and the dread of his employees. One day he falls down a steep slope by a river and hurts himself. The quarryman Fabera finds him groaning in pain and takes him to his cottage.
- An unsentimental and yet touching story of a man whose insincere desire for love leads him to fall prey to the profiteering trappings of his neighbor and her daughter.
- In Skoda's factories, where in 1914 they feverishly arm themselves, the foreman Kalina, the father of Pavel and Jan, works. Pavel is a supporter of the monarchy, Jan, on the other hand, defends the idea of national independence. Just before mobilization, Jan flees to Russia, where he joins the group of volunteer legionnaires "Czech Company" fighting against the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Pavel enlists in the Austrian army. The brothers did not meet again until July 1917 in the battle of Zborov in Ukraine, which marked the successful breakthrough of the Austro-Hungarian front.
- Antonín Havel was unhappily in love with Madlena. She married the rich Sedlák Vojnar, and Havel went to war. But Madlena soon became a widow. Madlena is forced by her brother-in-law Jakub into a second marriage. She refuses this not only because of her son Jeník, but also because of her memories of Antonín.
- Composer Bertl is a heavy drunkard and generously spends his wife's money. Her lawyer tries to arrange a quick divorce for the couple and thus save the rest of her account.
- Examining magistrate Kilián (Otomar Korbelár) is suspended because he allegedly enabled his friend Rynes (Miroslav Homola) to commit suicide in prison. The unfortunate Kilián under the name Kypr finds a position for himself as a copy clerk in a legal office. He cares for Rynes's daughter Anna Marie (Lenka Podhájská) in exemplary fashion and soon gains the favour of the indigent to whom he provides legal advice in the beerhall The Lout.
- A fortune-teller forecasts for Dr. Prelouc that he will marry the third poverty-stricken little girl he meets. Míla, the daughter of factory owner Janota, likes the doctor and with the aid of his housekeeper Amálka she insinuates herself into his household in the disguise of a poor seller of shoe-laces. She has prepared for her role beforehand by surveying the outskirts of the city where she met Vendelín Pleticha, who became her guide to the local pubs and teacher of the people's speech. Dr. Prelouc is inspired by the poor, uneducated girl and tries to teach her the rudiments of societal behavior, even literary language. Everything goes along until the moment he finds out that Míla is tricking him and that Pleticha is not the father she has passed him off to be.