The House of the Five Squirrels

Overview

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...

Details

Status

Released

Release date

February 25, 1944

Original language

Czech

Spoken languages

Czech

Countries

Czechoslovakia

Production

Lucernafilm

Cast

Jana Romanová,R. Antony,Ladislav Janeček,Emanuel Hříbal,Eva Šípová,Helena Bušová,Antonín Holzinger,Ladislav Pešek,Karel Peyr,Jindřich Lázničkaand 21 more

Director

Miroslav Cikán

Writer

Marta Russová,Miroslav Rutte

Cinematography

Karel Degl

Music

Josef Stelibský

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0216309