

From My Life
75%
2 TMDB ratings
Directed by Václav Krška
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.
Cast

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
Josef Příhoda
old villager
Arnošt Martínek
Zdeněk Fibich
Emilie Urbanová-Jeřábková
Barbora Smetanová

Helena Krtičková
Salomonová
Emil Dlesk
butler
Otto Čermák

Antonín Rýdl

Marta Májová
woman in the crowd at the National Theater
Inka Vostřezová
girl with a bouquet
Jarmil Burghauser
Ivo Žídek
Jeník
Rudolf Cortés
Dalibor (only playing)
Marie Podvalová
plays and sings Libuše
Beno Blachut
sings and plays
Václav Bednář
sings and plays
Luděk Mandaus
sings and plays
Vojen Novák
sings and plays
Milada Čadikovičová
sings and plays
Jan Konstantin
sings and plays
Bohumír Vích
sings and plays
Josef Vojta
sings and plays

Rudolf Asmus
sings and plays
Karel Kocourek
Slávka Jägrová
Ladislav Kulhánek
Marie Lukášová
Václava Austová
Jiřina Součková
Karel Hirsch
Déda Papež
Hynek Němec
Adam Novák
Jaroslav Vágner
Crew
Jaroslav Beránek
First Assistant Director

Václav Krška
Director
Vladimír Hrubeš
Second Assistant Director
Vladimíra Čečetková
Second Assistant Director
Jaroslav Beránek
Screenplay

Václav Krška
Screenplay
Jiří Mařánek
Screenplay
Jiří Mařánek
Novel
František Sandr
Production Manager
Václav Rouha
Unit Manager
Josef Novotný
Camera Operator
Saša Rašilov
Assistant Camera
Details
- Release date
- October 28, 1955
- Runtime
- 1h 45m
- Director
- Václav Krška
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