The Gold Heart

Country

Austria-Hungary

Copyright

1916

Production year

1916

Premiere

20 October 1916

Runtime

28 min

Category

film

Genre

comedy

Typology

featuretheatrical distributionshort

Original title

Zlaté srdéčko

Czech title

Zlaté srdéčko

English title

The Gold Heart

Synopsis

Councillor Pimpermann buys a little gold heart from a jeweller's shop for his wife and he boasts about his gift in the office. However, he doesn't notice that the little heart has fallen on the floor and he looks in vain for it at home. He sends his servant to have a look round the office. Meanwhile the heart has been found by the clerk Petřina. Pimperman confides in his daughter Bábinka about the loss who goes to the jeweller's to buy another gold heart. The servant returns empty-handed and the councillor goes off to search for it himself. For a small bribe, the wife finds out where and why her husband has left the house and she goes off to the shop to buy yet another one. Then the clerk arrives bearing the original lost heart. The councillor's wife catches him in an embrace with Bábinka. When the councillor returns his wife gives him the little heart she had bought saying that she had found it in the hall. The wife then receives a second heart from Bábinka and a third one from the clerk. The film ends with the happy embrace of three couples: the councillor and his wife, the clerk and Bábinka and the servant and the chamber-maid Mína.

Cast

Antonín Fencl

rada Pimpermann

Antonie Nedošinská

radova manželka Frony

Ema Švandová-Kadlecová

dcera radových Bábinka

Rudolf Kadlec

adjunkt Petřina

Marie Počepická

panská Mína

Vojta Novák

úředník

Zdena Kavková

květinářka

Stanislava Pollertová

dáma s dětmi na Petříně

Viktor Nejedlý

intervent u úřadu

Jiří Scheuba

muž s novinami

Milada Smolíková

silueta ženy na Kampě

Karel Brejška

restauratér

Crew and creators

Director of Photography

Václav Münzberger

Production info

Original Title

Zlaté srdéčko

Czech Title

Zlaté srdéčko

English Title

The Gold Heart

Category

film

Typology

featuretheatrical distribution

Genre

comedy

Origin country

Austria-Hungary

Copyright

1916

Production Year

1916

Production specifications

date of censorship 21 August 1919

Premiere

premiere 20 October 1916 (kino Lucerna /2 týdny/, Praha)

Production

Lucernafilm

Copyright Holders

Národní filmový archiv

Technical info

Duration typology

short film

Duration in minutes

28 min

Distribution carrier

35mm

Aspect ratio

1:1,33

Colour

tinting, black & white

Sound

silent

Versions

Czech

Dialogue languages

without dialogue

Subtitles languages

without subtitles

Intertitles languages

Czech

Opening/End credits languages

Czech