Love Led Them Through Life
Country
CzechoslovakiaCopyright
1928Production year
1928Premiere
28 November 1928Runtime
90 minDirector
Josef RovenskýCategory
filmGenre
melodramaTypology
featuretheatrical distributionlongOriginal title
Životem vedla je láskaCzech title
Životem vedla je láskaEnglish title
Love Led Them Through LifeSynopsis
Helena and Tonička have come to Prague to find happiness. Helena acquires the position of secretary for the banker Petr Ledenka, Tonička works as a cleaning lady. Petr falls in love with Helena and Tonička befriends a coporal. Helena is expecting a baby but the War begins and Petr has to join up. He entrusts his company with his friend Vilém Resler and he leaves for the front. Helena keeps her motherhood a secret so that she doesn't lose her job. Tonička looks after her daughter Evička. Tonička is knocked down by a car and an old accordion player takes in the child. Helena searches in vain for Evička. She leaves Resler, who had tried to seduce her, and goes to work in an orphage. The adolescent Eva befriends the news vendor Frantík and demonstrates her love by giving him a ring with a monogram inscribed on it which she had received from her mother when she was a child. Helena, quite by chance, recognises the ring and goes with Petr to look for Eva. The accordion player who had brought up their daughter is finally welcomed into their home.
Photos
Cast
Suzanne Marwille
Helena Šimková
Jan W. Speerger
bankéř Petr Ledenka
Robert Ford
Ledenkův společník Vilém Resler
Anita Janová
Tonička Svátková, Helenina přítelkyně
Josef Rovenský
harmonikář děda Kuděj
Václav Pecián
kaprál Brousek, Toniččin milý
Máňa Ženíšková
Helenina dcera Evička
Jaro Hykman
kamelot Frantík, Eviččin milý
Jiří Hron
voják s mlékem
Emilie Nitschová
paní domácí
Hermína Vojtová
Toniččina sousedka
Jaroslav Vávra
rekrut
Anna Opplová
matka rekruta
Rudolf Stahl
druhý rekrut
Vladimír Smíchovský
majitel půjčovny loděk
Jindřich Plachta
komorník
Helena Zmatlíková
děvčátko u dědy Kuděje
Mario Karas
muž v buřince
Antonín Šolc
muž v davu u vyhlášky
Luigi Hofman
smekající muž v davu
Crew and creators
Director
Based on
Bohumil Zahradník-Brodský (Životem vedla je láska – román)
Screenplay
Director of Photography
Production Designer
Cooperation
Willy Ströminger (fotograf)
Production info
Original Title
Životem vedla je láska
Czech Title
Životem vedla je láska
English Title
Love Led Them Through Life
Category
film
Typology
featuretheatrical distribution
Genre
melodrama
Origin country
Czechoslovakia
Copyright
1928
Production Year
1928
Production specifications
date of censorship 2 June 1928
Premiere
premiere 28 November 1928 /unsuitable for youths/ (kina Louvre, Radio a Světozor, Praha)
Production
Copyright Holders
Studio
Distribution
Technical info
Duration typology
feature film
Duration in minutes
90 min
Original length in metres
2 572 meters
Distribution carrier
35mm
Aspect ratio
1:1,33
Colour
black & white
Sound
silent
Versions
Czech
Dialogue languages
without dialogue
Subtitles languages
without subtitles
Intertitles languages
Czech
Opening/End credits languages
Czech
