The orphan Vojta works as a horseherd for farmer Potužák. The wild young man is hard-working but unruly. He is fond of poaching animals on the lords' estates, in the forests and lakes which he sells to middlemen. Potužák's sixteen-year-old daughter Apolenka is in love with him, as he is with her, although he is unconscious of the fact. Her timid brother Václav admires Vojta while Vojta despises him. Apolenka is attacked in the forest by the drunk Martinák. Vojta stuns him with a rod and runs off with Apolenka. Unfortunately the man comes to just as Václav is walking past him and the latter is blamed for the attack. Václav is arrested. Apolenka wants Vojta to tell what really happened; although he says nothing, Václav is still released shortly afterwards. Vojta begins to feel pangs of guilt and starts behaving more kindly to Václav. He now even finds killing animals distasteful. When he lets a deer free from its trap, the poacher Karhoun stabs him with a knife. Vojta, seriously wounded, is saved by granny Potužák and her great healing potions. The young man now has to serve in the army but Potužák promises him that, if he acquires a good position in the future, he will be able to have Apolenka as his wife.
The film was presented already late in 1943 in České Budějovice, Louny nad Pardubice.
sedlák Josef Potužák
manželka Potužáka
Václav, syn Potužákových
Apolenka, dcera Potužákových
zbudovská babička
čeledín Vojta
myslivec Radonický
sedlák z Pašic Jakub Krušný
manželka Jakuba Krušného
Jakub, syn Krušných
Anča, dcera Krušných
panský pěšák Martinák
pytlák Karhoun
vyšetřující soudce
košíkář Pavlíček
Lochnout
panský správce
soudní úředník Novák
pacholek u Potužáků Tomeš
krejčí Mejstřík
mladý sedlák u zbudovské babičky
porybný
hospodyně u zbudovské babičky
Ferda, druhý syn Krušného
četník
překupník
Karel Klostermann (Mlhy na Blatech – román)
Ferdinand Pečenka, Bruno Stephan, J. V. Staněk (přírodní snímky)
Mlhy na Blatech
Mist in the Moorland
Milenec tůní / Láska a vášeň
film
feature
drama
Czechoslovakia
1943
1943
14 January 1944
long
94 min
Czech