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