Ladislav Tůma, a clerk at a Prague savings bank, has unexpectedly inherited one and a half million crowns from a wealthy uncle who lived in Africa; there is, however, a condition attached to the inheritance, namely that he must employ his trusted butler Vlastimil Chytráček for a year. The sinister Ševčík, Tůma's colleague from an amateur sports club, has his eye on the latter's girlfriend Hana and he has Tůma thrown out of the club under suspicion of being a professional. Tůma is fired from the savings bank since it is the belief that, if a clerk has a butler, he must be an embezzler to have that amount of money. Ševčík also finds out about the will and its condition. Hana urges Tůma to sack Chytráček. Ševčík offers the unusual butler a job as manager in his pressing shop. Tůma discovers that he must "have the status of an employed person" with Chytráček for one year so he accepts the position of apprentice at the pressing shop, thus fulfilling the conditions of the will. He becomes friends with the former butler and tells him that he will share his inheritance with him after the year is up. Ševčík is too late. Chytráček even helps Tůma patch things up with Hana who had left him because of Ševčík's intrigues.
úředník záložny a sportovec Ladislav Tůma
komorník Vlastimil Chytráček
krejčí a básník Václav Mourek
Hana Karlíková, Tůmova snoubenka
JUDr. Karlík, prezident sportovního klubu, Hanin otec
Ing. Josef Ševčík, člen sportovního klubu
sportovec Baloun
notář Pazdera
ředitel záložny Kopecký
pokladní v záložně
Josefa Kadeřábková, Tůmova bytná
sekretářka notáře Pazdery
elegán
opilý zákazník
nosič
zákazník záložny Josef Kebrle
novinář
novinář
novinář
kustod klubu
člen klubu
člen klubu
člen klubu
člen klubu
členka klubu
psychiatr
ošetřovatel z blázince
zaměstnanec kanalizační služby
zaměstnanec kanalizační služby
fanda na kopané
fanda na kopané
akordeonista v orchestru
Zpívám si, Zní píseň přírody, mládí a svobody
Roman Blahník (Zpívám si), Roman Blahník (Zní píseň přírody, mládí a svobody)
Antonín Čejka (Zpívám si), Karel Kozel (Zní píseň přírody, mládí a svobody)
sbor (Zní píseň přírody, mládí a svobody)
Pán a sluha
The Lord and his Butler
film
feature
comedy
Czechoslovakia
1938
1938
30 September 1938
long
86 min
Czech