Directed by:
Miroslav CikánCinematography:
Jaroslav BlažekCast:
Jindřich Plachta, Antonie Nedošinská, Maria Tauberová, Lída Baarová, Jiří Plachý st., Ladislav Pešek, Čeněk Šlégl, Jaroslav Marvan, Stanislav Neumann (more)Plots(1)
Unemployed engineer Pavel Garden has fallen in love with the wealthy doctor Marianna. His friend and flatmate, philosopher Ivan Kuropkin, loves Klára, the landlord's daughter and Marianna's cousin. Klára's parents, Mr and Mrs Haugwitz, the owners of the house, run a successful business as greengrocers. The landlady cannot cope with her sudden social ascent and plagues her family with her excessive behaviour and dress sense. Pavel has managed to cultivate a special violet rose which he calls Marianna. The girl, however, mistakenly accuses Pavel of self-interested motives and rejects him. Mrs Haugwitz arranges to make an investment into the construction of a luxury hotel with the banker Ladman. Her otherwise downtrodden husband opposes her decision and refuses to put a penny of his money into the project. Both young men receive their marching orders and, together with their landlord, they move into a rented house where they cultivate a garden. The cheating banker has meanwhile caused Haugwitz's wife to go bankrupt and she is glad to accept a position in her husband's company. A celebration is held to mark the company's succes and all sides are reconciled. (official distributor synopsis)
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A nice operetta theme that was liked across the Czech Republic. The pace of the film adaptation is to be appreciated, the theatrical premiere directed by Oldřich Nový was in December 1933, and the film premiered in January 1935. The ambitions were great, but the colorful final scene was dropped and we will never see the true color of those lilac roses. However, there are some really good ideas in the B&W, especially Pešek's etudes on the pink balcony, Nedošinská's classic transformation is charming, and by far the best is the spicy Maria Tauberová, a real operetta diva of those years.
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