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The House of the Five Squirrels

63% | Feb 25, 1944
Comedy

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...

Top Billed Cast

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Míla Páčová
domácí Filoména Houbičková
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Jindřich Plachta
domácí Josef Houbička
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Růžena Nasková
majitelka hodinářství Bety Mráčková
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Jana Romanová
hodinářka Míla, dcera Mráčkové
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Eva Klenová
fotografka Lída, dcera Mráčkové

Featured Crew

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Miroslav Cikán
Director
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Marta Russová
Story
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Eduard Šimáček
Assistant Director
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Marta Russová
Screenplay
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Miroslav Rutte
Screenplay
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Karel Šilhánek
Production Manager
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Vilém Brož
Production Manager
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Karel Degl
Director of Photography
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Ina Kubová-Žáková
Set Decoration
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Antonín Zelenka
Editor
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Jan Zázvorka
Production Design
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Josef Stelibský
Original Music Composer

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