Three well-to-do friends, Hrdý, Sojka and Machač, go off on holiday together to a seaside spa. Gábinka, Hrdý's anxious wife, comes to the station to see him off. The men are hoping to live a little in the casino, on the beach and perhaps indulge in a little flirting. In a different hotel the young and beautiful Klára has just discovered that her lover has abandoned her and also stolen all her things, including her clothes. He had recommended to her that she find herself a rich man while she is still young. Klára, however, cannot think like this; it was not for money that she had loved the adventurous Robert. She now welcomes the simple and sincere company of Emanuel Hrdý who becomes a good friend. Klára has no financial difficulties because in the hotel where the three friends are staying, she is erroneously considered as a countess travelling incognito. Robert is mistaken about the relationship between Klára and Emanuel and, with a pistol in his hand, he robs him of his money and diamond buttons. Emanuel, feeling cheated, believes Klára to be a bait. The girl responds by sending a telegram to Gábinka asking her to come to the spa. She then uses her cunning to get back the stolen possessions and finally goes off in search of a new life.
This theme had already been treated in a Czech film under the same title (1926; directed by Josef Medeotti-Boháč).
Klára
statkář Emanuel Hrdý
Karel Machač
obchodník Josef Sojka
dobrodruh Robert
Emanuelova žena Gábinka
kněžna Witkónská
Machačova přítelkyně v baru
Sojkova přítelkyně v baru
společník kněžny Witkónské
společník kněžny Witkónské
společník kněžny Witkónské
cestující ve vlaku/ospalý muž v restauraci
muž na pláži
obstarožní světačka
barman
hotelový host s dětmi
hotelový vrátný
ředitel hotelu
vrchní v hotelu
zpěvák
hotelový host
hotelový host
kožišník
host v lázních
host v lázních
Richard
Richardova žena
listonoš
přítelkyně Gábinky
detektiv v herně
zástupce sirotčince
zástupce sirotčince
host v herně
host v herně
host v herně
host v herně
host v herně
Josef Štolba (Mořská panna – divadelní hra)
Antonín Frič (fotograf)
Orchestr F.O.K. (Music Conducted by Josef Stelibský)
Song Composer Josef Stelibský
Writer of Lyrics Karel Melíšek
Singer Oldřich Kovář
Mořská panna
Mořská panna
The Mermaid
Die Meerjungfrau
film
featuretheatrical distribution
comedy
Czechoslovakia
1939
1939
start of filming 21 August 1939
end of filming 5 September 1939
date of censorship 11/1939
date of censorship 6 October 1944 (bez predikátu)
withdrawal from distribution 18 May 1945
premiere 1 December 1939 /unsuitable for youths/ (kina Metro /1 týden/, Blaník /1 týden/ a Ráj /3 týdny/, Praha)
feature film
91 min
2 610 meters
35mm
1:1,37
black & white
sound
Tobis – Klang
Czech
Czech
without subtitles
Czech
Event: Státní záruky Československé vlády na výrobu filmů
1939
Praha / Czechoslovakia
Zdar