The Merry Wives (1938)

Name: The Merry Wives
Genre: Comedy, History
Released: 1938-09-16
Duration: 85 min
Cast: Zdeněk Štěpánek, Ladislav Pešek, Václav Vydra, Helena Friedlová, František Smolík

A morally questionable lord comes to the aid of a working class man who is to be executed for speaking out about thieving rich scoundrels sticking it to the poor.

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Released 1938-09-16 · 85 min · Comedy, History

Directed by Otakar Vávra

Cast

Zdeněk Štěpánek as Mikulas Dacicky of Heslov
Ladislav Pešek as Ocko
Václav Vydra as Wilhelm z Vřesovic
Helena Friedlová as Ludmilla
František Smolík as Alderman Triska
Jiřina Šejbalová as Sofia Triska
Theodor Pištěk as Squire Vodnansky
Antonie Nedošinská as Vodnansky's Wife
Elena Hálková as Eva
Gustav Hilmar
Hana Vítová as Elisabeth Mladekova
Adina Mandlová as Rozina
Bedřich Karen as David Wolfram
František Kreuzmann as Master Felix of Hasenburg
Ladislav Boháč