Eva's Divorce
Country
CzechoslovakiaCopyright
1937Production year
1937Premiere
12 March 1937Runtime
82 minDirector
Jan SvitákCategory
filmGenre
dramaTypology
featuretheatrical distributionlongOriginal title
Rozvod paní EvyCzech title
Rozvod paní EvyEnglish title
Eva's DivorceProtectorate parallel title
Frau Evas ScheidungSynopsis
The elegant wife of a widely known Prague lawyer, Eva Plužná does not pay too much attention to her young daughter. Spoilt by her husband she flits from one lover to another. Dr. Rybiak, the owner of a sanatorium where Eva is taking treatment, falls in love with her and asks her to leave her husband. Rybiak's wife Hana, also a doctor, discovers their affair and they row violently. Rybiak is arrested in Prague, where he has gone to be with Eva, because his wife is found poisoned by a mysterious poison. Eva's husband meanwhile catches her being unfaithful with a new lover and only the pleas of Eva's father and her little daughter prevent a divorce. In court, the testimonies of Rybiak's assistant and the taxi driver who once drove Eva and Rybiak worsen Rybiak's case. Eva then betrays him by denying their liaison under oath and by claiming he admitted to her that he had murdered his wife. At the last moment Rybiak is saved by a letter which Hana's cousin Jiří Málek brings to the court; it is Hana's letter of farewell to her husband before suicide. Eva, under pain of punishment for perjury, shoots herself in the courtroom.
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Cast
Bedřich Vrbský
JUDr. Karel Plužný
Jiřina Šejbalová
Eva, Plužného žena
Bohunka Nosková
Evička, dcera Plužných
Helena Bušová
MUDr. Hana Rybiaková
Zvonimir Rogoz
MUDr. Richard Rybiak, Hanin manžel
Jaroslav Marvan
MUDr. Mudroň, Rybiakův asistent
Jiří Dohnal
Jiří Málek, bratranec Hany Rybiakové
Theodor Pištěk
mistr Beriti, penzionovaný herec, Evin otec
Betty Kysilková
Betty, žena Beritiho
Nancy Rubensová
vychovatelka Elenka
Ella Nollová
Hálová, bývalá bytná Jiřího
Ladislav Hemmer
milenec paní Evy
Václav Trégl
taxikář Václav Horáček
Karel Jičínský
předseda soudu
Čeněk Šlégl
státní návladní
Josef Oliak
votant
Šimek
novinář
Paclík
novinář
Frank Rose-Růžička
strážník
Helena Grünhutová
dáma ze společnosti
Jan W. Speerger
tajný
Julius Baťha
tajný
Karel Postranecký
řidič nákladního auta
Václav Mlčkovský
disponent firmy American Heating
Václav Menger
dozorce ve vězení
Ladislav Janeček
policejní inspektor
Marie Oliaková
členka poroty
F. X. Mlejnek
stěhovák
Marta Školudová
komorná
Oldřich Kovář
zpěvák
Crew and creators
Director
Assistant Director
Karel Šilhánek, Ladislav Schwarz (adept režie)
Screenstory
Screenplay
Director of Photography
Production Designer
Set Designer
Costumes
Make-Up Artist
Film Editor
Sound Designer
Production Manager
Cooperation
Antonín Frič (fotograf)
Music
Music Composed by
Music Performed by
Orchestr F.O.K. (Music Conducted by Miloš Smatek)
Songs
Seňorito, až se setmí... (tango)
Song Composer Josef Stelibský
Writer of Lyrics Jaroslav MottlKarel Melíšek
Singer Oldřich Kovář
Nevěřím hvězdám (waltz)
Song Composer Josef Stelibský
Writer of Lyrics Jaroslav MottlKarel Melíšek
Singer Jiřina ŠejbalováOldřich Kovář
Production info
Original Title
Rozvod paní Evy
Czech Title
Rozvod paní Evy
English Title
Eva's Divorce
Protectorate Parallel Title
Frau Evas Scheidung
Category
film
Typology
featuretheatrical distribution
Genre
drama
Origin country
Czechoslovakia
Copyright
1937
Production Year
1937
Production specifications
start of filming 4 February 1937
end of filming 18 February 1937
date of censorship 03/1937
date of censorship 06/1940
date of censorship 15 June 1942 (konec povolení k promítání 31. 12. 1943)
withdrawal from distribution 18 May 1945
date of censorship po 06/1945 (konec povolení k promítání 1945)
withdrawal from distribution 11/1945
Premiere
premiere 12 March 1937 /unsuitable for youths/ (kina Hollywood /2 týdny/ a Praha /1 týden/, Praha)
renewed premiere po 06/1945 /unsuitable for youths/
Production
With support
Copyright Holders
Studio
Distribution
Nationalfilm (původní 1937), Státní půjčovna filmů (obnovená 1945)
Technical info
Duration typology
feature film
Duration in minutes
82 min
Original length in metres
2 335 meters
Distribution carrier
35mm
Aspect ratio
1:1,37
Colour
black & white
Sound
sound
Sound system/format
Tobis – Klang
Versions
Czech
Dialogue languages
Czech
Subtitles languages
without subtitles
Opening/End credits languages
Czech
Awards
Vítěz
Event: Soutěž Filmového studia na původní filmové drama
1936
Praha / Czechoslovakia
Belo Mládek
