Juraj Hordubal returns after eight years from America, where he has made enough money for improvements on his farm. His daughter Hafie does not recognize him and even his wife Polana displays no visible joy at his return. Štěpán Manya has been a labourer on the farm for the whole of these years and people claim that he has become Polana's lover. Juraj refuses to listen to the accusations and believes that his wife's estrangement is only the result of the long period of loneliness. Nevertheless he fires Štěpán. Subsequently his wife shuts herself in the attic and stops taking an interest in the household. So that she will become conciliatory, Juraj brings Štěpán back after a while, but he publicly announces that he is Hafie's fiancé, which is not to the labourer's liking at all. In spite of everything Juraj stops by the notary's and in his will he bequeathes all his property to his wife. But on the way home he gets drenched and comes down with fever. In the morning the news spreads through the village that he has been killed. Suspicion is first to fall on Juraj's brother Michal, with whom Juraj has been feuding of late. Eventually the desperate Polana confesses in court that she and Štěpán killed her husband. As the doctor states, however, the severely ill Juraj was at that moment already in a deathly agony.
The film was presented at the 6th Venice Film Festival, 1938. In the year 1940 the film was released under the non-original title Bratři Hordubalové (The Hordubal Brothers).
Juraj Hordubal
Michal, Jurajův mladší bratr
Polana Hordubalová, Jurajova žena
čeledín u Hordubalů Štěpán Manya
Maryna, Michalova žena
Hafie, dcera Polany a Juraje
bača Míšo
Filípek, Marynin nezletilý bratr
četnický praporčík Gelnaj
štábní strážmistr Karel Biegl
gazda Gejza Fedeleš
MUDr. Václav Klenka, soudní lékař
cestující ve vlaku
cestující ve vlaku
průvodčí ve vlaku
kovář
chasník
chasník
chasník
chasník
dělník v lomu
starý Manya, hospodář u Fedeleše
předseda senátu
státní návladní
obhájce
soudní znalec
notář
přísedící senátu
přísedící senátu
člen poroty
člen poroty
člen poroty
návštěvnice v soudní síni
strážník u soudu
strážník u soudu
soudní zřízenec
stařeina ve vlaku
Eduard Šimáček, Gina Hašler, Otakar Hanuš (adept režie)
Karel Čapek (Hordubal – román)
Willy Ströminger (fotograf)
Orchestr F.O.K. (Music Conducted by Miloš Smatek)
Hordubalové
Hordubalové
The Hordubals
Brüder Hordubal
Bratři Hordubalové [uvedení 1940]
The Hordubal Brothers [uvedení 1940]
Hordubal
film
featuretheatrical distribution
drama
Czechoslovakia
1937
1937
start of filming 3 September 1937
end of filming 24 September 1937
date of censorship 11/1937
date of censorship 17 May 1940 (kulturně-výchovný)
date of censorship 1943 (predikáty „lidově hodnotný film“ a „film pro Den hrdinů“)
withdrawal from distribution 18 May 1945
date of censorship 16 November 1945 (konec povolení k promítání 16. 11. 1946)
withdrawal from distribution 15 May 1947
premiere 21 January 1938 /unsuitable for youths/ (kina Lucerna /1 týden/ a Passage /1 týden/, Praha)
renewed premiere 1 December 1945 /unsuitable for youths/
Lloyd (původní 1938), Státní půjčovna filmů (obnovená 1945)
feature film
112 min
3 200 meters
35mm
1:1,19
black & white
sound
Tobis – Klang
Czech
Czech
without subtitles
Czech
Event: Odměny ministra průmyslu, obchodu a živností
1939
Praha / Czechoslovakia
Lloyd