Conscience

Story

Synopsis

Karel Doležal, insurance clerk and exemplary father of a family, leaves for a business trip with his secretary Vlasta. After spending the night together, they both return home. However, thanks to a small moment of inattention, they run over the boys. Karel runs away from the scene of the crime. He won't tell anyone what happened. Then when he reads in the newspaper that the boy did not survive the accident, he begins to feel guilty. He confides in his wife about the accident, not the infidelity. Their son Jirka overhears everything. His father has always been his role model, and that's why he doesn't want to accept his guilt.

Director

Jiří Krejčík

Writers

Jiří Fried, Vladimír Valenta, J. A. Novotný

Language

Czech

Country

Czechoslovakia

Release date

25 March 1949

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Miloš Nedbal

  Karel Doležal

• 

  Marie Vášová

  Zdena, Doležal's wife

• Jan Prokeš

  Jirka Doležal

• 

  Irena Kačírková

  Vlasta

• 

  Bohuš Záhorský

  commissar Rudolf Mautner

• 

  Vladimír Hlavatý

  professor

• 

  Eduard Dubský

  Verbl, insurance officer

• 

  František Kovářík

  director schools

• František Šlégr

  director of the insurance company

• Oldřich Hoblík

  factory owner Hajek

• Michaela Lišková

  Alenka, daughter of the Doležals

• Jindřich Fairaizl

  insurance agent Tonda Mejzr