Summary
The year of 1937 brought the penultimate onscreen curtain call for one of the most popular films stars of the First Republic era, namely Truda Grosslichtová. Subsequently, her background as a half-Jew made her a target for the Nazi occupiers of Czechoslovakia, and so voluntary retirement beckoned. Advokátka Věra (Lawyer Věra) is directed by Martin Frič and sees Grosslichtová portraying a freshman lawyer, who has one year to prove the viability and profitability of her new law firm to her father (Theodor Pištěk). Failing that, Věra will have to marry a man selected by her father. Fortunately, Věra undertakes a successful court defence of Petr Kučera, nicknamed “Tiger”, and falls in love with him to boot. Though the depictions of the women in the film are old-fashioned from a contemporary point of view, Oldřich Nový tempers this somewhat with a sensitive performance as Věra’s love interest.
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