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.
as Bedřich Smetana
as Bettyna, Smetana's wife
as writer Jan Neruda
as dr. Ladislav Rieger
as paní Fröjda
as Karel Sabina
as Antonín Dvořák
as writer Eliška Krásnohorská
as Otylie Malá
as dr. K. Sladkovský
as poet Vítězslav Hálek
as Karel Purkyně
as writer Josef Wenzig
as composer Franz Liszt
as count Harrach
as count of Thurn-Taxis
as Sophie, Smetana's daughter
as Josef Schwarz, Žofi's fiancé
as Ferdinandi
as singer Eleonora of the Ehrenbergs
as bandleader Maýr
as rector of Pivoda
as rector Krejčí
as rector Thomé
as referent Linhart
as dr. Ambros
as S. Goldsmith
as Maid Baruska
as Taxisová
as Harrachová
as music correspondent Werner
as Mrs. Fröjda's husband
as man in Sweden
as man in Sweden
as woman in Sweden
as principal of comedians
as village teacher
as man in society
as laundress
as young villager
as old villager
as Zdeněk Fibich
as Barbora Smetanová
as Salomonová
as butler
as woman in the crowd at the National Theater
as girl with a bouquet
as Jeník
as Dalibor (only playing)
as plays and sings Libuše
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