The suffocating conditions in a bourgeois family were depicted in several films in the second half of the 1950s - this one is one of the lesser known, although it achieves great emotional impact, free from the first ideological pressures. The title character, the owner of the tenement house Mrs. Dulská, controls her relatives and tenants with a firm and despotic hand. To achieve her goals, she masterfully combines tears, blackmail and insidious intrigues, or does not hesitate to abuse the trusting and handsome maid Hanka when she wants her son not to fool around. Everything suddenly turns around when Hank gets pregnant... But the appearance of a good reputation is more important to her than anything.

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An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexual...

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When an Italian man comes out of the closet, it affects both his life and his crazy family.

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A history professor and his wife entertain a young couple who are new to the university's faculty. A...

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In director Baz Luhrmann's contemporary take on William Shakespeare's classic tragedy, the Montagues...

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Australian good girl Sandy and greaser Danny fell in love over the summer. But when they unexpectedl...

After two American prisoners are killed by guards in the act of escaping from a German POW camp in W...

London, 1929. Frank Webber, a very busy Scotland Yard detective, seems to be more interested in his ...

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A depiction of the conflict between King Henry VIII of England and his Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas M...

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A pair of circus clowns, played by Vlasta Burian and Jaroslav Marvan, take in an abandoned child and...

The young Gaby is happily married to the musician Peter but cannot ignore the impression that his fr...