Movie Drama
In 1900, Stepha, the vivacious 30 year old daughter of a wealthy couple, agrees to marry her cousin Paul, who has accumulated large debts as an Austrian army officer. Paul refuses to work or to consummate the marriage, and then his health steadily declines.
Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia
Iva Janžurová Petr Čepek Marie Rosůlková Ota Sklenčka Vladimír Jedenáctík Karel Chromík Jana Plichtová Karel Černoch Josef Laufer Stanislav Remunda Jan Schánilec Josef Červinka Míla Myslíková Václav Halama Václav Štekl Marie Motlová Vlastimila Vlková Karel Augusta Václav Vondráček Jana Sedlmajerová Marie Černá Marie Hübschová Jaroslav Blažek Evelyna Steimarová Miloslav Šindler Dušan Urgošík Ilona Jirotková Marian Cingroš Jan Kotva Zdeněk Grygárek Milena Kaplická Josef Burda Karel Hovorka Miloslav Štibich Jiřina Jandová Otto Ohnesorg Vít Pešina Olga Przygrodská Josef Skrčený Miloslav Novák Josef Vlček Jan Vlček Růžena Vlčková Václav Vodák Vladimír Zoubek Margit Harníčková J. Havlíková Gabriela Ryzcová ml. Ladislav Mrázek Antonín Kühnel Jiří Stehlík Jar. Drážďanský G. Freiman F. Janák Robert Kühnel P. Řezníček Milan Sivek Jar. Šmatlák Jaroslava Bauerová Vlastimil Čáp Marie Čápová Dagmar Dobrovodská Věra Dvořáková Růžena Ferencová Magda Hanzlíková František Havel Jan Herodes Olga Hnátková Josef Hrbek Vl. Kalčíková Vincenc Koblitz Isabela Koblitzová Josef Kočí Petra Kodýmová Jan Kolaja Ladislav Kouklík Olga Kutálková Světlana Marinovová Jiřina Maturová Jiřina Merhautová Aleš Plhoň Antonín Pohořelý Magda Prokůpková Ota Růžička Libuše Slabihoudková Antonín Slovák Dáša Svobodová Věra Ševčíková František Šmíd Magdalena Šmídová Božena Šnajdrová Naďa Trifkovičová Ludmila Večeřová Ladislava Veselá Miloš Větvička Marie Všetečková Josef Zejda Františka Zemanová Josef Somr Jaroslav Satoranský
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