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Barbora Hlavsová (1943)

Barbora Hlavsová (1943)

Drama
Release Date: 1943, January 15
Directors: Martin Frič
Countries: Czechoslovakia
Production: Nationalfilm, Nationalfilm
Cast: Rudolf Hrušínský, Eliška Kuchařová, František Filipovský, Jiřina Štěpničková, Vilém Pfeiffer, Stella Májová, Václav Trégl, František Smolík, Eman Fiala, Karel Dostal, Terezie Brzková, Jaroslav Průcha

Overview:

The generally respected director of a small-town savings bank, Hlavsa, commits embezzlement because of his wasteful and spoiled wife, and when the situation cannot be saved, he shoots himself. His mother, a simple village woman, takes in her widowed daughter-in-law and teenage grandson on the condition that they both help her to compensate for all the damage. For the city lady, the hard village work is suffering. The same goes for young Bořík, a gifted pianist who finds it difficult to give up his dreams of an artistic career...

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based on short story