Summary
Using his own novel Odcházeti s podzimem (Leaving with Autumn) as a foundation, Václav Krška wrote a screenplay that he set out to turn into a film in 1939 together with another debutant Frantíšek Čáp. This romantic story turns on a stirring infatuation that takes hold of three young people under the influence of Šimon, a Prague student. After the study year, 18 year-old Julio returns to his parental home, a little chateau on the Otava river. There he converges with his childhood friend Petr and the young boatman's daughter Klárka. Sharing her beguilement with Šimon, who has quickly turned a tranquil summer atmosphere into a relationship drama, is Julio’s cousin Rosa… Alongside Václav Sova – his part as Julio represented his only fling with the film scene – Lída Baarová shines as Rosa. Svatopluk Beneš plays Šimon while the part of Klárka is taken by the then 18 year-old Zorka Janů – Baarová’s younger sister who in 1946 committed suicide because she could not bear the persecution of her family.
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