A Carl Lamac directed movie based on a novel by Karel Václav Rais.

A biographical story about significant Czech dramatist, writer and actor Josef Kajetán Tyl.

The film depicts the troubles of Herr Verner ( Herr Karel Hasler ), a middle-aged bachelor dentist who wants to marry.

The first film treatment of the fate of the good soldier Švejk, a dog dealer from Prague, who is arrested after the Sarajevo assassination, psychiatrically examined and later called up to c. and k. army to fight for the emperor lord.