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.
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.
bardáma Manon
bankovní úředník Mario Zeman
boháč Kwiatowský
Jiří Borský, Mariův přítel
Manonin bratr Ferry
člen vyšetřovací komise
Manonina teta
číšník
dítě - tanečnice
návštěvník baru
Dáma z baru
The Lady From the Bar
film
feature
drama
Czechoslovakia
1924
1924
1 April 1925
long
91 min
Czech