Country girl Helena falls in love with an artist painting the local village scenery and one evening she lets herself be seduced by him. The artists leaves but soon invites Helena to Prague where they make love again. Helena then returns home to her sick father and refuses the constant attentions of the gamekeeper Rýza. After some time she realises that she is pregnant. Since she knows that the artist will not marry her, she goes to visit her aunt who takes her to an abortionist. When the girl returns home after the abortion she discovers her father has died. The opportunist aunt sees her chance and moves in with Helena and persuades her to marry Rýza. After the wedding she is blackmailed by her aunt and the abortionist and she even loses the child she is expecting with her husband. The artist returns to the village and tries to seduce Helena again. When his model and lover comes to him and discovers his plans, she shoots him. The aunt and the abortionist have been summoned to the court. The wretched Helena admits everything to her husband about her past. He is sad about what has happened but in the end he forgives her.
Helena Rottrová
malíř František Král
nadlesní Rýza
porodní bába Marie Doudlebová
Helenina teta paní Rozamová
modelka Máňa
Helenin otec
Otakar Hanuš (Já jsem vinna! – román)
Fotoatelier Benda (fotograf)
Andělíčkářka
Andělíčkářka
The Abortionist
film
featuretheatrical distribution
drama
Czechoslovakia
1929
1929
date of censorship 30 November 1929
date of censorship 04/1935 (konec povolení k promítání 1940)
premiere 31 January 1930 /unsuitable for youths/ (kino Louvre /1 týden/, Praha)
feature film
82 min
2 340 meters
35mm
1:1,33
black & white
silent
Czech
without dialogue
without subtitles
Czech
Czech