The House of the Five Squirrels
Synopsis
Josef Houbička, the owner of the U pěti veverek apartment building in Malostran, is a kind and forgiving good man who allows himself to be ruthlessly oppressed by his proud wife, Filoména, and secretly fixes her problems with the tenants. He lends rent money to two poor painters and bribes offended maids just to keep the house quiet. He would like to restore the old soap factory in the house, but Filoména promotes more profitable garages. And since neither of them wants to back down, Houbička eventually leaves the house after one of the arguments. He makes friends with the innkeeper Pulec, who runs the not-so-prosperous inn At the Leaky Jug...
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Top cast
Míla Páčová
domácí Filoména Houbičková
Jindřich Plachta
domácí Josef Houbička
Růžena Nasková
majitelka hodinářství Bety Mráčková
Jana Romanová
hodinářka Míla, dcera Mráčkové
Eva Klenová
fotografka Lída, dcera Mráčkové
Jan Pivec
malíř portrétista Jan Rezek
Ladislav Pešek
malíř krajinář Jiří Holec
Jaroslav Průcha
mydlář Antonín Aloyz
Jaroslav Marvan
hostinský "U děravého džbánu" Jan Pulec
František Kreuzmann
podnikatel Anatol Kozel