''The Dancer'' () is a 1943 Czech
historical
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romantic drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...
directed by
František Čáp
František Čáp (7 December 1913 – 12 January 1972), also known as Franz Cap in Germany, was a Czech and later a Yugoslav film director and screenwriter. He directed 32 films between 1939 and 1970. Having created Slovene film classics such as ...
and starring
Marie Glázrová,
Jiřina Štěpničková and
Růžena Nasková. It was shot at the
Barrandov and
Hostivař Studios in
Prague
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. The film's sets were designed by the art director
Jan Zázvorka.
[''Czech Feature Film II: 1930-1945''. Národní filmový archiv, 1995. p. 345]
Cast
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Marie Glázrová as Clo
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Jiřina Štěpničková as Marie, Clo's sister
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Růžena Nasková as Mother
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Terezie Brzková as Háta, housekeeper
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Karel Höger as Saša Holberg / Arens
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Josef Belský as Baron Schwarz
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Karel Dostál as physician in Dresden
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Vlasta Fabiánová as Marie Luisa
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Jan Fifka as Director of Vienna Opera
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Nelly Gaierová as singer at Maxim's
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Slávka Hamouzová as girl in company
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Marie Holanová as maid at Clo
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Milada Horutová as visitor of Vienna Opera
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Eduard Kohout as Maras, baron
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Eliška Kuchařová as Maruška
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Viktor Malčev as Karel Höger's dance double
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Jaroslav Marvan
Jaroslav Marvan (11 December 1901 – 21 May 1974) was a Czech actor. He was born in Prague. He was married since the 1920s with Marie Marvanová and had a daughter (Alena Marvanová) with Alena Jančaříková.
He passed his school-leaving ...
as Derman, director of National Theatre
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Miloš Nedbal as Deval, director from Brussels
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Gustav Nezval
Gustav Nezval (18 November 1907 – 17 September 1998) by civil name Augustin Nezval, was a Czech stage and film actor.
Biography
Nezval was born to a locksmith family of Frantisek Nezval and his wife Aloisia. The parents wanted him to bec ...
as Princ Maxmilián
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Jelizaveta Nikolská as Mme Richetti
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Jaroslav Orlický as Maxmilián's butler
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Otakar Pařík as Dirigent
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Václav Pata as waiter at Maxim
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Václav Piskáček as Vienna Opera Spectator
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Jan Pivec as Miloš Borský
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Zdeněk Podlipný as Critic
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Dalibor Pták as visitor of Vienna Opera
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Bohuš Rendl as Sebastian Kubeš
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Vladimír Řepa as Mrs. Satranová's coachman
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Karel Roden
Karel Roden (born 18 May 1962) is a Czech actor, popularly known for his roles in ''Hellboy'' and '' The Bourne Supremacy'', and his voice work in ''Grand Theft Auto IV''.
Life and career
Roden followed his father and grandfather into acting. ...
as Maxmilián's servant
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Zvonimír Rogoz as maestro Bondini
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Josef Sládek as theatre worker
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Helena Smolová as visitor of Vienna Opera
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Míla Spazierová-Hezká as singer in cabaret Chat Noir
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Jiří Steimar as Vienna Opera director Walter
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Bedřich Veverka as baron Franz von Reiter
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Václav Voska as visitor of Vienna Opera
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Antonín Zacpal as Husar
References
Bibliography
* Havel, Václav Maria. ''Mé vzpomínky''. Nakl. Lidové noviny, 1993. p. 429
External links
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1943 films
1943 drama films
1940s Czech-language films
Czech drama films
Films directed by František Čáp
Czechoslovak black-and-white films
Czechoslovak drama films
1940s Czech films
Czech historical films
1940s historical films
Films set in the 1900s
Films shot at Barrandov Studios
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