Adina Mandlová

Early Czech wartime comedy

Comedic effort from 1930s Czechoslovakia

Drama of a working girl's life in pre-Hitler Prague and her unhappy love affair.

An unsuccessful composer falls in love with the beautiful daughter of a musical publisher. As he is unemployed, he pretends that he is his own uncle, a man with a good job in the company.

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. (imdb)

The title refers to the office of records in the basement of a large company... sort of the place where a troublesome employee may be dumped in a dead end job. If fact, the story is a simple romantic comedy, with Burian as the kindly old stick-in-the-mud who helps the young man to sort out his romance with the daughter of the company's owner.

Professor Karas is widely known as enthusiastic propagator of the motto "Morality Above All Else". He guides his students as well as his own family to live a morally decent life. One day he has an unexpected visit. It's his illegitimate daughter Vera, who is proof of his thoughtless youth. Mr. Karas know that she can ruin his image, thus he decides to keep her a secret and asks her to leave. Instead of leaving she takes a position of a governess in his own family without letting him know.

Alois Novák (Oldrich Nový), a minor clerk in a travel agency and the husband of a dowdy housewife Marenka (Natasa Gollová), lives a run-of-the-mill, dull life. In his soul, however, there resides an inextinguishable desire for adventure. And so once a month he poses as a playboy. As the mysterious and wealthy Mr. Kristian he goes to the exclusive Orient Bar where he does not skimp on generous tips and where he platonic-ally seduces beautiful and elegant women. (imdb)

Zuzanka (Natasa Gollová) can finally stop toiling away at washing dishes at hotel Mercur after a distant aunt has bequeathed her her own hotel - Blue Star. She proudly marches over to the luxury hotel in the center of town and immediately begins to change the personnel. Because this involves the facilities belonging to a joint-stock company, which no one can inherit, she is considered insane. (imdb)

Továrník Daněk had a report for the milenkou, by the late brother Emanuela Vovíska, who had been sent to the sanatorium for nervous breakdowns to bring Jonas out of America. Jonah sent a telegram, saying that he was in Paris, and that the situation did not go well. It was said that his wife Lydda would marry Jonah. And it came to pass, that as he made an end of speaking all these words unto Jonah, he wrote unto him.