The House of the Five Squirrels (1944)

Plot Summary

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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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

Helena Bušová

služka u Houbičků Stázi

Jana Dítětová

služka u Houbičků Růžena

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