On a park bench one gossip tells another the story of a young man who has just walked by. Years before, his mother Helena had been a beautiful and gifted student of singing. Her platonic lover was Vilém, fellow student and son of a bodice manufacturer and salesman. After a graduation party at the Conservatory Martin frivolously seduced Helena. The next day he went to Paris and left no word of himself at all. The girl was horrified to find out she was pregnant. She therefore welcomed Vilem's gallant proposal of marriage. Eight years passed. Vilém was by then successfully managing his factory, he adored his son Ivan as his own, and Helena loved her husband. But then Martin came back. He yearned for Helena and suspected Ivan was his son. Helena resisted Martin's courtship and Ivan instinctively hated his "uncle". One evening, before Martin was to leave, they had some champagne. When Vilém went to bed, drunken Martin embraced Helena. Ivan happened to see this and told Vilém. The latter generously offered liberty to his wife. Helena refused, because she loved her husband. The gossips are tearful at the touching story. A pensioner on the next bench observes: "Everything passes, only gossips are eternal."
Helena Horáková
Vilém Gregor, Helenin muž
Helenin synek Ivan
výrobce šněrovaček, Vilémův otec
penzista
zahradník Šebor
klepna
klepna
hudebník Rudolf Martin
ředitel Stavovského divadla Angelo Neumann
student Růžička
student Krištůfek
student Nečas
studentka Klára
Nána, Ivanova chůva
zpěvák v kabaretu
čalouník Skutecký
uklízečka
sekretář Stavovského divadla
Helenina teta
listonoš
pianista korepetitor
teta Ema
teta Klotylda
strýc Adolf
sluha u Gregorů Jerolím
prodavačka u Gregorů
princ Lobkovic
zákaznice u Gregorů
studentka Lída
student kytarista a čelista
student a klavírista Karel
student Jan
studentka Julie
Jan Branberger (Jsou dívčí ústa rajská zahrada – píseň), Jan Branberger
Fanda Mrázek (Jsou dívčí ústa rajská zahrada – píseň), sbor (Loučení, loučení – píseň), František Černý (Za jeden krásný pohled tvůj – píseň)
Co se šeptá
Gossips
film
feature
narrative
Czechoslovakia
1938
1938
27 September 1938
long
90 min
Czech