
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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