From My Life
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.
Director
Václav KrškaCast
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