The Mysterious Beauty

Country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1922

Production year

1922

Premiere

28 November 1922

Category

film

Genre

comedy

Typology

featuretheatrical distribution

Original title

Neznámá kráska

Czech title

Neznámá kráska

English title

The Mysterious Beauty

Synopsis

Jaroslav Smola is unfaithful to his wife and tries to place the blame on his friend Petr Stamati. He finds understanding in his father-in-law who, as a young man had also cheated on his wife and does not know that she found out about it. On Petr Stamati's return from Egypt, Jaroslav's tricks are revealed. Jaroslav and his father-in-law take their exasperated wives to the cinema in order to try and save situation. In the weekly film newsreel there are shots at a swimming pool in which Jaroslav is caught in the company of an mysterious beauty. The family disaster reaches a peak. Furthermore, the wrestling champion Theodor Straka returns from abroad to hear that his wife was seen in the film with an unknown man and sets off to the cinema where there is a meeting of everyone involved. Fortunately, however, he does not get an opportunity to see the film for himself and instead believes the version of events that his frightened wife has fabricated. She explains that it was a fictional film scene and that the film crew had asked Smola if he would play the role as the actor had not apeared. Everyone is satisfied with this story, especially Petr Stamati and Máňa Vacková who, in the course of events, have got to know each other.

Note

This was Oldřich Nový´s first film appearance.

Cast

Vladimír Marek

Jaroslav Smola

Věra Skalská

Smolova žena Milada

Oldřich Nový

Petr Stamati

Jan Purkrábek

Miladin otec Ferdinand Veselý

Katy Fibingerová

Miladina matka Ludmila

Heda Marková

neteř Máňa Vacková

Josef Žídek

zápasník Theodor Straka

Vlasta Bubelová

Strakova žena alias Neznámá kráska

Přemysl Pražský

režisér Lloydfilmu

Crew and creators

Based on

Holländer (Záhadná kráska – opereta)

Director of Photography

Otto Luňák

Production info

Original Title

Neznámá kráska

Czech Title

Neznámá kráska

English Title

The Mysterious Beauty

Category

film

Typology

featuretheatrical distribution

Genre

comedy

Origin country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1922

Production Year

1922

Premiere

premiere 28 November 1922 /unsuitable for youths/ (kino Universum /½ týdne/, Brno)

Production

Lloydfilm

Copyright Holders

Národní filmový archiv

Distribution

Lloydfilm

Technical info

Distribution carrier

35mm

Aspect ratio

1:1,33

Colour

black & white

Sound

silent

Versions

Czech

Dialogue languages

without dialogue

Subtitles languages

without subtitles

Intertitles languages

Czech

Opening/End credits languages

Czech