Film

Morality Above All Else

1937 · 1h 15m · Comedy

IMDb

7.3

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. Mr. Karas realizes that he must reveal the truth sooner or later, but he doesn't have enough courage to do so. As he postpones it, he is more and more scared to come to his own home.

Hugo Haas

Professor Antonín Karas

Světla Svozilová

Karolína Karasová - wife

Adina Mandlová

Eva Karasová - daughter

Jiří Hlinomaz

Ivan Karas - son

Ladislav Boháč

MUDr. Jílkovský

Saša Rašilov

JUDr. Mach - friend

Věra Ferbasová

Vera Gregorova - illegitimate daughter

Mirko Eliáš

Konrád - sculptor

Zdeňka Baldová

Mr. Drázná - Executive Association for the Advancement of morality

Marie Ptáková

Mr. Roubalová - Executive Association for the Advancement of morality

Marie Pilská

Member of the Association for the Advancement of morality

Milada Gampeová

Mr. Nyklasová - Executive Association for the Advancement of morality

Marie Ježková

Madla - maid at Karas

Elsa Vetešníková

Chambermaid in a hotel

Marie Marková-Nekolová

Gossip

Terezie Třebovská

• Martin FričDirector · Screenplay
• Hugo HaasScreenplay
• Otakar VávraScreenplay
• J. ErbenováStory
• Ferdinand PečenkaDirector of Photography
• Roman BlahníkOriginal Music Composer
• R. A. DvorskýOriginal Music Composer
• Jan KohoutEditor

Release date

February 24, 1937

Status

Released

Original language

Czech

Runtime

1h 15m

Genres

Comedy