Factory owner Pardon, meets Olga, daughter of clairvoyant Stefanie Lesczynska at a ball. Their brief acquaintance is interrupted when Olga and her mother have to leave. Fifi Hrazánková has her sights set on the elligible Pardon. Pardon asks his Uncle Cyril Ponděliček if the girl could take over his position at work so that she may be dissuaded of her amorous intentions. Fifi seduces Pondělíček. In the meantime, Pardon meets Olga and Stefanie again by chance and offers them a place to stay at Ponděliček's while Pondělíček passes himself off as Pardon. Ponděliček recognises Stefanie as his former lover, Olga is their daughter. Stefanie also recognises him, but Pondělíček declares that he is the thief named Kanibal whom the newspapers are all writing about. He locks Pardon, Stefanie and Olga in the cellar and, together with Fifi, he escapes. In the inn they happen to come across the real Kanibal who is being pursued by the police. The police mistakenly arrest Pondělíček. Pardon explains to the Police who Pondělíček really is. The real Kanibal is then apprehended. Pondělíček then marries Stefanie and they wish their daughter luck with the factory owner, Pardon. Fifi is thus finally cured of her romantic notions.
In 2008 the film was reconstructed by the National Film Archive.
továrník Pardon
továrníkův strýc Cyril Pondělíček/kriminálník Alois Kanibal
Fifi Hrazánkova, dcera továrníka
Fifina matka, manželka továrníka Hrazánka
Fifin ctitel
jasnovidka Štefanie Lesczynská
dcera Lesczynské Olga
komorník Kristián
strážce zámeckého parku Alois Pivoňka
zahradník
zahradníkův pomocník
apač
apačka
Fifin šofér
vrátný v hotelu
detektiv
velký strážník
menší strážník
číšník
kadeřník
třetí oběť kriminálníka
harmonikář Venca
host na plese
Milenky starého kriminálníka
The Lovers of an Old Criminal
film
feature
comedy
Czechoslovakia
1927
1927
7 October 1927
Oceanfilm (původní 1927), Národní filmový archiv (obnovená 2015)
long
125 min
Czech
Czech Intertitles