Václav Krška (Screenplay) · Jaroslav Beránek (Screenplay) · Jiří Mařánek (Screenplay)
Karel Höger
Bedřich Smetana
Zdenka Procházková
Bettyna, Smetana's wife
Jaromír Spal
writer Jan Neruda
Bedřich Karen
dr. Ladislav Rieger
Vlasta Fialová
paní Fröjda
Oldřich Lukeš
Karel Sabina
Eduard Cupák
Antonín Dvořák
Jana Rybářová
writer Eliška Krásnohorská
Libuše Matějová
Otylie Malá
Eduard Kohout
dr. K. Sladkovský
Zdeněk Dítě
poet Vítězslav Hálek
Jiří Vršťala
Karel Purkyně
Karel Dostal
writer Josef Wenzig
Štěpán Bulejko
composer Franz Liszt
Bedřich Vrbský
count Harrach
Rudolf Walter
count of Thurn-Taxis
Ludmila Vendlová
Sophie, Smetana's daughter
Václav Švorc
Josef Schwarz, Žofi's fiancé
Bohumil Aisman
Ferdinandi
Jarmila Pechová
singer Eleonora of the Ehrenbergs
Felix le Breux
bandleader Maýr
Gustav Hilmar
rector of Pivoda
Václav Vydra
rector Krejčí
Jiří Steimar
rector Thomé
Gustav Heverle
referent Linhart
Karel Jičínský
dr. Ambros
František Kreuzmann
S. Goldsmith
Saša Danešová
Maid Baruska
Nelly Gaierová
Taxisová
Milada Matysová
Harrachová
Eduard Dubský
music correspondent Werner
Vladimír Borský
Mrs. Fröjda's husband
Antonín Kandert
man in Sweden
Raoul Schránil
man in Sweden
Gabriela Bártlová-Buddeusová
woman in Sweden
František Filipovský
principal of comedians
František Kovářík
village teacher
Miloš Nedbal
man in society
Ella Šárková
laundress
Petr Haničinec
young villager
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The film, in individual episodes, captures the fate of Bedřich Smetana from 1856 until the end of his life, from his young years until the moment when, exhausted by human and artistic hardship, he sees the fulfillment of his great dream, the opening of the National Theatre.
