For Love

Country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1928

Production year

1928

Premiere

22 February 1929

Runtime

95 min

Category

film

Genre

melodrama

Typology

featuretheatrical distributionlong

Original title

Z lásky

Czech title

Z lásky

English title

For Love

Synopsis

Ella Horská, a secretary who was abandoned by her lover, engineer Karel Rubeš, gives birth to a daughter, Květa. Year later Ella lives humbly as a seamstress; the wealthy Karel had married in the meantime but, after the death of his sons and his wife, he is now alone. Květa has now become a successful school pupil. Her professor recommends her to the factory owner Frank as a secretary. In Prague Květa makes the acquaintance of the factory owner's nephew, the handsome Oskar whose courtship she must reject. The factory owner's son Viktor, a racing driver, soon wins her affections. When Oskar names Květa as his lover in front of Viktor, the latter begins avoiding her. The unhappy Květa, whose mother needs money for spa treatment, finally accepts an offer of marriage from Viktor's father. Květa and Ella, staying at the spa, are visited first by Frank and then by Karel who is still the cause of Ella's anger. News then reaches them at the spa that Viktor has been injured while practising for a race. Everyone returns to Prague. Karel and Ella make up and Frank consents for Viktor to marry Květa.

Note

A sound version of the film was made in 1933 with the music of Erno Košťál. In the National Film Archive a sound copy K-N 2100,0 m is preserved.

Cast

Marie Grossová

komptoiristka Ella Horská

Máňa Ženíšková

Ellina dcera Květa

Jan W. Speerger

Ing. Karel Rubeš, Květin otec

Theodor Pištěk

továrník Robert Frank

Fred Bulín

Frankův syn Viktor

Arnošt Kunz

Frankův synovec Oskar Neumann

Marta Májová

Oskarova matka

Antonie Nedošinská

Květina bytná Lukešová

Antonín Vaverka

ředitel gymnázia

Ella Nollová

vrátná v továrně

Eduard Malý

portýr v hotelu

Karel Kander

strážník

Václav Žichovský

lékař u továrníka Franka

Eduard Šlégl

komorník továrníka Franka

Jindřich Fiala

sluha seladona Oskara

Jiří Sedláček

zpěvák v baru

Josef Oliak

host v baru

Karel Veselý

host v baru

Bruno Sojka

spolujezdec na vítězném voze Viktora

Jindra Štěpánek

dítě

Crew and creators

Based on

Marie Kyzlinková (Z lásky – román)

Screenplay

Vladimír Slavínský, Miroslav Cikán (ozvučení 1933)

Director of Photography

Václav Vích

Production Designer

Vilém Rittershain

Cooperation

Willy Ströminger (fotograf)

Music

Music Composed by

Erno Košťál (ozvučení 1933)

Production info

Original Title

Z lásky

Czech Title

Z lásky

English Title

For Love

Category

film

Typology

featuretheatrical distribution

Genre

melodrama

Origin country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1928

Production Year

1928

Production specifications

date of censorship 15 October 1928
date of censorship 07/1933 (ozvučená verze)

Premiere

premiere 22 February 1929 /unsuitable for youths/ (kina Avion, Kapitol a Passage, Praha)
renewed premiere 15 June 1934 /unsuitable for youths/ (kino Skaut /1 týden/, Praha /ozvučená verze/)

Production

Gloriafilm

Copyright Holders

Národní filmový archiv

Distribution

Gloriafilm (původní 1929 a obnovená 1934)

Technical info

Duration typology

feature film

Duration in minutes

95 min

Original length in metres

2 700 meters

Distribution carrier

35mm

Aspect ratio

1:1,33, 1:1,19

Colour

black & white

Sound

silent, sound

Sound system/format

Union-Vox

Versions

Czech

Dialogue languages

without dialogue

Subtitles languages

without subtitles

Intertitles languages

Czech

Opening/End credits languages

Czech