''Když struny lkají'' ( en, When the Strings Wailed) is a 1930

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directed by

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. It is considered the first Czechoslovak film fully made with synchronized sound.

Cast

* Václav Vydra as Farmer Michovský *

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as Slávka, Michovský's wife * Hans Feher as Jeníček, Michovský's son *

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as Marek * Olga Augustová as Lady in a bar * Hugo Haas as Gentleman in a bar * Marie Tauberová as Bar visitor *

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as Nováková *

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as Michovský's guest *

Čeněk Šlégl Čeněk Šlégl (30 September 1899 – 17 February 1970) was a Czech film actor. He appeared in 68 films between 1919 and 1941. Selected filmography * ''Never the Twain'' (1926) * ''Prague Seamstresses'' (1929) * ''Sin of a Beautiful Woman ...

as Toman *

Josef Rovenský Josef Rovenský (17 April 1894 – 5 November 1937) was a Czech-Jewish Siegbert Salomon Prawer, ''Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933'', Berghahn Books (2007), p. 213 film actor and director. He app ...

as Skála *

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as Officer Prokop * Rudolf Nížkovský as Bartender *

Josef Šváb-Malostranský Josef Šváb-Malostranský (16 March 1860, Prague – 30 October 1932, Prague) was a Czech actor, writer, cabaret singer, publisher, director and screenwriter. He owned a bookstore and song publishing house. He was the first Czech actor perfo ...

as Bar patron *

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as Bar patron

References

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