The Way of the Cross (1938)
In a small village in the Chodsko region, people live with daily worries about making a living. Many are dependent on work on the estate. Only the priest Jiří is able to stand up against the undignified conditions here, but he receives no gratitude, because the steward turns the villagers against him. Staněk, an engineer whose son Ondřej is studying at a grammar school, also works on the estate. The boy would like to continue studying law in Prague and is very surprised by his mother's wish for him to become a priest. His mother relies on the priest to talk Ondřej out of it. However, Jiří was once in the same situation, so he knows how difficult it is to perform well a mission that one has not chosen for oneself...
Director:
Jiří Slavíček
Writers:
Jaroslav Menčík, Karel Steklý.
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Hana Vítová as Hanči Vachudová |
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František Kreuzmann as Vachuda |
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Zdeněk Štěpánek as Jiří |
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Jaroslav Průcha as Staněk |
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Hermína Vojtová as Staňková |
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Vladimír Šmeral as Ondřej |
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Jaroslav Marvan as |
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Eman Fiala as Matěj Palma |
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Jiří Steimar as |
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Ella Nollová as |
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Karel Kolár as |
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Marie Ptáková as |
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Karel Černý as |
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Karel Postranecký as |
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Jindřich Fiala as |
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Emil Dlesk as |
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Karel Třešňák as |
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František Malý as |
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Marie Pilská as |
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Nita Romanečová as |
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Karel Máj as |
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Vladimír Řepa as |
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Josef Kotalík as |
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Alois Dvorský as |
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Josef Vošalík as |
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Vladimír Jedlička as |
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Jan W. Speerger as |
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Gabriel Hart as |
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Václav Menger as |
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Arnošt Mirský as |
| Writing | Jindřich Šimon Baar | Novel |
| Camera | Josef Střecha | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Jaroslav Menčík | Screenplay |
| Editing | Jan Kohout | Editor |
| Writing | Karel Steklý | Screenplay |
| Directing | Jiří Slavíček | Director |
| Directing | Gustav Straschnitz | Assistant Director |
| Sound | František Šindelář | Sound |
| Production | Václav Dražil | Production Manager |
| Sound | Jiří Fiala | Original Music Composer |
| Art | Rudolf Žák | Set Decoration |
| Art | Jan Zázvorka | Production Design |
| Art | František Nestler | Set Decoration |