Dissolute Abel Beer, with the help of his debt collector friends - usurers, swindles a Prague Doctor Jakub Hlohovský out of a quiet house in Malá Strana. Jakub, familiar with the secrets and effects of various medicines, uses them to make himself look dead.
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Karel Fiala
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Theodor Pištěk
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Růžena Maturová
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Ita Krasava
Karel Lamač
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Syn hor
Jan S. Kolár Director · Karel Dewetter Author Otto Heller Cinematographer
First release July 28, 1922 · Produced in XC
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Czech
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XC · July 28, 1922
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