During winter 1851, Josef Němec, the chief commissioner of the financial guard, leaves on business for Slovakia. His four children and his wife Božena, who refused to accompany him, come to say goodbye to him to the railway station. The marriage of the Němec family is unhappy. Božena is too emancipated and is not even close to the contemporary ideal of a married woman - a silent and obedient person. Božena Němcová is a writer and her friends are people hostile to the Austrian regime. A time of increasing political pressure develops and the Czech patriots are persecuted. The editor and pre-eminent Czech writer Karel Havlíček Borovský is arrested and deported to Brixen. Some people from Božena's circle become cautious, even cowardly. The burdensome financial situation forces Božena to leave and join her husband with the two younger children in May 1853. But there is again another whirligig of fights and Josef is moreover thrown out of the service due to his wife. Then the news about the serious illness of their son Hynek arrives from Prague; the boy, however, dies soon after his mother's arrival. The desperate Božena stays in Prague and, to comfort herself, begins to write about her childhood memories - the book which is later to become a classic of Czech literature, The Grandmother. The sick Havlíček returns to Prague, too, and dies of tuberculosis in July 1856. People gather in front of his house despite the police ban. The dauntless Božena Němcová arrives to lay a crown of thorns on Havlíček's coffin.
spisovatelka Božena Němcová
Josef Němec, manžel Němcové
MUDr. Vilém Dušan Lambl
Karolina Světlá vlastním jménem Johanka Rottová, provdaná Mužáková
profesor Petr Mužák
Žofie Rottová, Johančina sestra
Jan Evangelista Purkyně
Karel Havlíček Borovský
MUDr. Václav Staněk
profesor Jan Ignác Hanuš
Laura, Hanušova žena
páter Václav Štulc
knihkupec Jan Jaroslav Pospíšil
Hynek, syn Němcových
Karel, syn Němcových
Dora, dcera Němcových
Jarouš, syn Němcových
Janko Kráľ
Václav Čeněk Bendl
Lotti, Staňkova žena
Němcův kolega
tajný policista
návladní
venkovan ve vlaku
student
muž s úmrtním oznámením
policista
maďarská bytná
muž u výlohy
důstojník
stařec-běženec
vozka
dělník
služka
průvodčí
zdravící muž
student
student
maďarská služka
průvodčí
tajný
četník
dělník
měštka
Karel Kracík, František Šaněk, Ladislav Winkelhöfer
Otakar Košťál, Václav Volk, Alena Hejdánková, Ivana Mesteková
Emanuel Formánek, Bohumír Brunclík (zvukové efekty)
Vlastimil Maršálek, Ludmila Venclíková
Jan Bočánek
PhDr. Miloslav Novotný, Otakar Matoušek
Jindřich Panáček (fotograf), Helena Michlová
Horoucí srdce
Horoucí srdce
An Ardent Heart
film
featuretheatrical distribution
biography
Czechoslovakia
1962
1962
literary Screenplay approved 20 December 1961
start of filming 16 April 1962
technical Screenplay approved 27 April 1962
end of filming 2 November 1962
projection approval 19 December 1962
withdrawal from distribution 30 June 1990
premiere 8 March 1963 /suitable for youths/ (kino Blaník /3 týdny/, Praha)
premiere 8 March 1963 /suitable for youths/ (celostátní)
Tvůrčí skupina Feix – Brož, Miloš Brož (vedoucí dramaturg tvůrčí skupiny), Karel Feix (vedoucí výroby tvůrčí skupiny)
feature film
100 min
2 858 meters
16mm, 35mm
1:1,66, 1:2,35
black & white
sound
mono
Czech
Czech
without subtitles
Czech