The opera lady singer Ema Destinnová is in all her splendor at the American stages. But in Europe there rages war and she decides to return home to Bohemia.
Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia
Božidara Turzonovová Juraj Kukura Jiří Adamíra Miloš Kopecký Josef Somr Čestmír Řanda Josef Kemr Václav Neužil Václav Lohniský Karel Augusta Vlastimil Bedrna Jana Smrčková Milena Svobodová Zdeněk Dítě Karel Urbánek Všemír Němec František Řehák Oto Ševčík Bořík Procházka František Šec Václav Kyzlink Stanislav Zindulka František Husák Milan Karpíšek Karel Peyr Josef Střecha Radka Fidlerová Zdeněk Blažek Jiří Kostka Ľudovít Kroner František Kubíček Vilém Pfeiffer Zdeněk Srstka Jiří Wohanka Zdeněk Hodr Miloslav Štibich Ronald Heller Aleš Bultas Jiří Havel Milan Pěkný Josef Klika Josef Hochmann Jiří Sládek Karel Vítek Stanislav Šárský Jana Vaňková Jan Waldmann Vladimír Lebeda Zdeněk Hess Augustín Kubán Vladimír Hrabánek Karel Chromík Pavel Robin Vít Pešina Petr Hanus Patricie Limberská Josef Jarolímek Marián Kleis Stanislav Kořínek Václav Kotva Ivo Alves Omar Baldy Arnošt Böhm Zuzana Bydžovská Mirko Dostál Jaromír Švarc Eva Weissová Jiří Čumpelík Nelly Danko Naděžda Blažíčková Jitka Gauggová Jiří Hansel Jiří Hladík Olga Hlavsová Jaroslav Holeček Ludmila Houdková Aranka Hovorková Irena Jedličková Zuzana Jiráčková Helena Joklová Jan Kadlec Marigula Karastathi Karel Kmoch Jan Kolomazník Eva Landová Luděk Ludvík Marcela Martiníková Eva Maříková Karel Mašek Jiří Merta Bohumír Nekut Jiří Němeček Milada Němečková Jarmila Novotná Heda Pašková Miloslava Rešlová Alena Stránská Michal Šebor Jindřiška Šulcová Hana Tomsová Jiří Trojan Jitka Trojanová Zdeněk Václavík Eliška Vitanovská Monika Vjazovcová Daniel Wiesner Bohumil Klika Ivan Krob Jaromír Petřík Marek Vašut Růžena Smolíková Gabriela Beňačková Jiří Zahradníček Richard Ivar Radoslav Brzobohatý
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