At the request of his dying mother, a young man enters a religious order but the pretty gardener's daighter at the monastery fills his head with confused ideas right from the first few weeks. Luckily the novice has time to reflect upon his decision. Father Řehoř, a sad monk, tells him his own story which had drove him to the monastery twenty five years before. This story forms the main part of the plot: young love - an arrenged marriage - entering the monastery - a murder intrigue - the death of an unhappy lover, now she is a widow - the serenity and solitude of the monastery. The love story of the young novice ends happily, however, thus father Řehoř symbolises the latter's fate by freeing a bird from the cage. (According to an article appearing in the press at the time the film was made).
Olga Augustová acted in this film under the pseudonym A. Guttová. The film materials are believed lost.
mnich Řehoř
Prokopova dcera Anička
bohatý sedlák Petr
mladý student Karel
chalupník Holý
Marta, dcera Holého
Holého žena Anna
chalupník Šimek
opat kláštera
Šimkova žena Františka
bláznivý muzikant Martínek
klášterní zahradník Prokop, otec Aničky
Mnichovo srdce
Mnichovo srdce
The Heart of a Monk
Srdce mnichovo
film
featuretheatrical distribution
lost film
melodrama
Czechoslovakia
1921
1921
preview 11 June 1921 (kino Lucerna, Praha)
premiere 16 September 1921 /unsuitable for youths/ (kino Slavia, Praha)
medium length film
50 min
1 415 meters
35mm
1:1,33
black & white
silent
Czech
without dialogue
without subtitles
Czech
Czech
