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A graduate of the Faculty of Philosophy, Karel Stržický earns extra money in the summer as a day laborer for the landowner Drahan. Jarča, the Drahans' daughter, spends the holidays with her parents, and her father has a lot of worries about her. The unsuccessful student is failing her German. However, an easy solution is offered - Karel will prepare her for remedial work. The mischievous Jarča considers him an ordinary coachman, and so she initially turns her nose up at him. However, the cultured young man manages to win her trust and heart. This does not go down well with his rival in the fight for the girl's favor, and he immediately comes up with a nasty slander: Karel is supposedly a former convict! A rift is not long in coming...
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A graduate of the Faculty of Philosophy, Karel Stržický earns extra money in the summer as a day laborer for the landowner Drahan. Jarča, the Drahans' daughter, spends the holidays with her parents, and her father has a lot of worries about her. The unsuccessful student is failing her German. However, an easy solution is offered - Karel will prepare her for remedial work. The mischievous Jarča considers him an ordinary coachman, and so she initially turns her nose up at him. However, the cultured young man manages to win her trust and heart. This does not go down well with his rival in the fight for the girl's favor, and he immediately comes up with a nasty slander: Karel is supposedly a former convict! A rift is not long in coming...
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Genre:Comedy
Written By:Čeněk Šlégl, Karel Feix
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Studio:Nationalfilm
Cast
Čeněk Šlégl, Jiří Slavíček
Director
Theodor Pištěk
statkář Drahan
Zdeňka Baldová
Marta Drahanová
Hana Vítová
Jarča
Gustav Nezval
dr. Karel Stržický
Jindřich Plachta
Petr Lašek
Ladislav Pešek
Bořek Navrátil
Jiří Vondrovič
Antonín Holeček
Eman Fiala
Josef Kostka zvaný Saranče
Václav Trégl
Rašek
Stanislav Neumann
Karel Vávra
Bedřich Veverka
Felix Žlůva
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