In the Prague Old Town and the adjoining streets there is always plenty of life. Housewives shop, beggars arouse sympathy, the Salvation Army tries to put the godless on the road to salvation by hymns and sermons, and Ferdys Pistora hunts in the pockets of his fellow men and isn't even put off by the presence of an officer of the law. Ferdys sets off to burgle villa of the banker Rosenstok, but a fire breaks out in the house and Ferdys ends up saving the banker's two small children. For this he is celebrated as a hero and gets a place as an errand boy with the Rosenstoks. At home he is visited by representatives of the Salvation Army, Captain Kosterka and Terezka, with whom Ferdys instantly falls in love.
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Martin Štěpánek Bohuš Záhorský Ladislav Pešek Kateřina Macháčková Alena Vránová Zdeněk Řehoř Josef Gruss Martin Růžek Zdeněk Kryzánek Václav Sloup Stanislav Fišer Antonie Hegerliková Josef Beyvl Eduard Kohout Zora Polanová Milica Kolofíková Jana Drbohlavová Michaela Lohniská Leoš Kaltofen Anna Gabrielová Vladimír Leraus Otto Haas Regina Kociánová Marta Richterová Jitka Cerhová František Miroslav Doubrava Bert Schneider Anna Smejkalová Karel Smyczek Karel Rojdl Blažena Vernerová Iva Šašková Václav Švec Miloš Vavruška Oldřich Velen Zuzana Šeřínská Oskar Hák Václav Kotva Stanislav Hájek Jiří Joran Věra Petáková Jana Posseltová Naděžda Sobotková Eduard Pavlíček Inka Vostřezová Antonín Meisner Miloš Willig Michaela Vítková Ladislav Branč Josef Burda Karel Peyr Jiří Cimický Eva Fröhlichová Marie Gergiedowská Ivana Kuchařová Ivana Suchá J. Janovcová Věra Muchková H. Sedláčková Jiřina Knížková Eugenie Šulcová Anselma Teisingerová Ludmila Vrbická M. Ždánská Václav Král Milan Kindl Václav Wittmann Renata Bauerová Václav Halama Helena Pejšková Karel Vrtiška Angelo Michajlov Petra Nohová Blanka Rendlová Eva Roučková M. Havránková Jaroslav Holeček M. Machačová Jaroslav Mašek D. Mašková Mojmír Müller Otto Stočes L. Führbacher Marie Fajglová Pavel Pekárek Karel Turnovský O. Maršálek L. Nedvěd V. J. Sýkora M. Vrzáň Čestmír Preclík J. Diedicz Miroslav Angr Zdeněk Skalický E. Bzura M. Votava
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