Ludmila Tarantová accused by her maid Francina of the murder of her husband and unjustly condemned to twenty years imprisonment is praying in a prison chapel. Ludmila is released after fifteen years and she goes back to her village. Under a different name she starts to work as a housekeeper for the brother of her dead husband who is bringing up her children - Eliška and Blažej. No one recognises Ludmila after such a long time and Blažej behaves badly towards the new "housekeeper". The dying servant Francina confesses to forging a deceitful testimony against Ludmila and the village priest tells Tarant, that his housekeeper was his brother's wife. Eliška and Blažej are glad that they have found their mother and Tarant soon asks Ludmila to be his wife.
At the beginning of the first reel is a symbolic image of Man – the Law.
Ludmila Tarantová
lesník Karel Tarant, Ludmilin muž/Blažej Tarant, Ludmilin syn
Tarant, Karlův bratr
služka Francina, Karlova milenka
adjunkt Mejzlík
farář
dědeček Cibiš
četník
Eliška, Ludmilina dcera
poručík Vrtěl, Eliščin nápadník
Tonička
Jiří, Toniččin ženich
dráb
prokurátor
předseda soudu
porotce
obhájce
obhájce
obhájce
četník
četník
dítě
divačka u soudu
Bohumil Zahradník-Brodský (Dům ztraceného štěstí – román)
Jan Roth (vrchní osvětlovač), Willy Ströminger (fotograf)
Dům ztraceného štěstí
Dům ztraceného štěstí
The House of Lost Hapiness
film
featuretheatrical distribution
drama
Czechoslovakia
1927
1927
premiere 3 February 1928 /unsuitable for youths/ (kina Avion, Radio a Světozor, Praha)
feature film
95 min
2 700 meters
35mm
1:1,33
black & white
silent
Czech
without dialogue
without subtitles
Czech
Czech