The Lady From the Bar
Country
CzechoslovakiaCopyright
1924Production year
1924Premiere
1 April 1925Runtime
91 minDirector
Hans OttoCategory
filmGenre
dramaTypology
featurelongOriginal title
Dáma z baruCzech title
Dáma z baruEnglish title
The Lady From the BarSynopsis
The elderly wealthy man Kwiatowski spends his evenings in the bar where he worships the beautiful Manon. She, however, has fallen in love with the naive Mario, an occasional visitor to the bar who impresses Manon with his refined behaviour. She marries him but soon she is bored by domestic life. She begins to frequent the bar once more where Kwiatkowski showers attention on her. Mario discovers that the money Manon has is not from her rich aunt in Lvov, as Manon had claimed. The aunt comes unexpectedly to visit Manon's husband and Mario sees that she is very poor. Manon, after a struggle with her conscience, decides to break from the past and she leaves the bar forever. But it is too late. Mario had, in the past, tried to acquire money through embezzlement and now he had been discovered. The young man shoots himself in his despair.
Note
In agreement with the German producer, one part of the German film Moderne Ehen (Sins within Marriage) was made in a Czech production with Czech actors. In 1930 the film was presented once more as an independent short film Lady from the Bar.
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Suzanne Marwille
bardáma Manon
Karel Lamač
bankovní úředník Mario Zeman
Theodor Pištěk
boháč Kwiatowský
Mario Karas
Jiří Borský, Mariův přítel
Joe Jenčík
Manonin bratr Ferry
Karel Veselý (herec)
člen vyšetřovací komise
Saša Dobrovolná
Manonina teta
Bonda Szynglarski
číšník
Ella Hrabánková
dítě - tanečnice
Jan W. Speerger
návštěvník baru
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Original Title
Dáma z baru
English Title
The Lady From the Bar
Category
film
Typology
feature
Genre
drama
Origin country
Czechoslovakia
Copyright
1924
Production Year
1924
Premiere
1 April 1925
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Lenght
long
Runtime
91 min
Versions
Czech