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Nocturnal Butterfly (1941)
Directed by František Čáp
Drama, Romance · 1h 23m
Marta Dekasová works as a governess in a garrison town. The beautiful girl is the center of attention of many men, but she only desires Lieutenant Varga, who is married and rejects her. Desperate, Marta throws herself into the arms of the most intrusive of her suitors, and is then dismissed in disgrace. She goes to Prague to live with her friend Kiki, becomes a bar singer, and continues her journey down the sloping surface. Hope for a new life dawns on her when a young student falls in love with her, but just then Varga appears in the bar and rekindles her unquenched feelings...
Cast
Hana Vítová
Marta Dekasová
Svatopluk Beneš
Rudolf Kala
Gustav Nezval
Varga
Marie Glázrová
Helena Vargová
Adina Mandlová
Anča alias Kiki
Rudolf Hrušínský
Michal Lary
Jaroslav Marvan
Martin zamestnavatel
Elena Hálková
Milostivá paní
R
Renée Lavecká
Mášenka
Marie Blažková
Eduard Kohout
Leopold
Anna Steimarová
Crew
- Director
- František Čáp
- Screenplay
- František Čáp, Václav Krška
- Novel
- Vojtěch Mixa
- Director of Photography
- Ferdinand Pečenka
- Original Music Composer
- Roman Blahník
- Editor
- Antonín Zelenka
Details
- Original title
- Noční motýl
- Release date
- 1941-10-10
- Runtime
- 1h 23m
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Original language
- CS
- Spoken languages
- Czech
- Countries
- Czechoslovakia
- Production
- Lucernafilm