The Lady From the Bar

Country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1924

Production year

1924

Premiere

1 April 1925

Runtime

91 min

Director

Hans Otto

Category

film

Genre

drama

Typology

featuretheatrical distributionlong

Original title

Dáma z baru

Czech title

Dáma z baru

English title

The Lady From the Bar

Synopsis

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.

Cast

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

člen vyšetřovací komise

Saša Dobrovolná

Manonina teta

Jan W. Speerger

návštěvník baru

Ella Voldánová

bankovní úřednice

Ella Hrabánková

dítě –⁠ tanečnice

Crew and creators

Director

Hans Otto

Screenstory

Hans Otto

Director of Photography

Josef Kokeisl

Production Designer

Alois Mecera

Production info

Original Title

Dáma z baru

Czech Title

Dáma z baru

English Title

The Lady From the Bar

Category

film

Typology

featuretheatrical distribution

Genre

drama

Origin country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1924

Production Year

1924

Premiere

premiere 1 April 1925

Production

Josef Kokeisl

Copyright Holders

Národní filmový archiv

Distribution

Josef Kokeisl

Technical info

Duration typology

feature film

Duration in minutes

91 min

Original length in metres

2 600 meters

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