Juraj Hordubal returns after eight years from America, where he has made enough money for improvements on his farm. His daughter Hafie does not recognize him and even his wife Polana displays no visible joy at his return. Štěpán Manya has been a labourer on the farm for the whole of these years and people claim that he has become Polana's lover. Juraj refuses to listen to the accusations and believes that his wife's estrangement is only the result of the long period of loneliness. Nevertheless he fires Štěpán. Subsequently his wife shuts herself in the attic and stops taking an interest in the household. So that she will become conciliatory, Juraj brings Štěpán back after a while, but he publicly announces that he is Hafie's fiancé, which is not to the labourer's liking at all. In spite of everything Juraj stops by the notary's and in his will he bequeathes all his property to his wife. But on the way home he gets drenched and comes down with fever. In the morning the news spreads through the village that he has been killed. Suspicion is first to fall on Juraj's brother Michal, with whom Juraj has been feuding of late. Eventually the desperate Polana confesses in court that she and Štěpán killed her husband. As the doctor states, however, the severely ill Juraj was at that moment already in a deathly agony.
The film was presented at the 6th Venice Film Festival, 1938.
Juraj Hordubal
Michal, Jurajův mladší bratr
Polana Hordubalová, Jurajova žena
čeledín u Hordubalů Štěpán Manya
Maryna, Michalova žena
Hafie, dcera Polany a Juraje
bača Míšo
Filípek, Marynin nezletilý bratr
četnický praporčík Gelnaj
štábní strážmistr Karel Biegl
gazda Gejza Fedeleš
MUDr.Václav Klenka, soudní lékař
cestující ve vlaku
cestující ve vlaku
průvodčí ve vlaku
kovář
chasník
chasník
chasník
chasník
dělník v lomu
hospodář u Fedeleše
bača
předseda senátu
státní návladní
obhájce
soudní znalec
notář
přísedící senátu
přísedící senátu
člen poroty
člen poroty
člen poroty
návštěvnice v soudní síni
strážník u soudu
strážník u soudu
soudní zřízenec
Karel Čapek (Hordubal – román)
Hordubalové
The Hordubals
film
feature
drama
Czechoslovakia
1937
1937
21 January 1938
long
112 min
Czech
Event: Odměny ministra průmyslu, obchodu a živností
1939
Praha / Czechoslovakia
Lloyd