
The film, in individual episodes, captures the fate of Bedřich Smetana from 1856 until the end of his life, from his young years until the moment when, exhausted by human and artistic hardship, he sees the fulfillment of his great dream, the opening of the National Theatre.
Bedřich Smetana

Bettyna, Smetana's wife

writer Jan Neruda

dr. Ladislav Rieger

paní Fröjda

Karel Sabina

Antonín Dvořák

writer Eliška Krásnohorská

Otylie Malá
dr. K. Sladkovský

poet Vítězslav Hálek

Karel Purkyně

writer Josef Wenzig

composer Franz Liszt
count Harrach

count of Thurn-Taxis
Sophie, Smetana's daughter

Josef Schwarz, Žofi's fiancé
Ferdinandi
singer Eleonora of the Ehrenbergs
bandleader Maýr

rector of Pivoda

rector Krejčí

rector Thomé

referent Linhart

dr. Ambros

S. Goldsmith

Maid Baruska
Taxisová

Harrachová
music correspondent Werner

Mrs. Fröjda's husband

man in Sweden
man in Sweden

woman in Sweden
principal of comedians

village teacher

man in society

laundress

young villager

old villager
Zdeněk Fibich
Barbora Smetanová
Salomonová

butler
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woman in the crowd at the National Theater

girl with a bouquet
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Jeník
Dalibor (only playing)
plays and sings Libuše
sings and plays
sings and plays
sings and plays
sings and plays
sings and plays
sings and plays
sings and plays
sings and plays
sings and plays

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