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The House of the Five Squirrels
Release Date: Feb 25, 1944
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Genres: Comedy

Josef Houbička, the owner of the U pěti veverek apartment building in Malostran, is a kind and forgiving good man who allows himself to be ruthlessly oppressed by his proud wife, Filoména, and secretly fixes her problems with the tenants. He lends rent money to two poor painters and bribes offended maids just to keep the house quiet. He would like to restore the old soap factory in the house, but Filoména promotes more profitable garages. And since neither of them wants to back down, Houbička eventually leaves the house after one of the arguments. He makes friends with the innkeeper Pulec, who runs the not-so-prosperous inn At the Leaky Jug...

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Míla Páčová | domácí Filoména Houbičková
Jindřich Plachta | domácí Josef Houbička
Růžena Nasková | majitelka hodinářství Bety Mráčková
Jana Romanová | hodinářka Míla, dcera Mráčkové
Eva Klenová | fotografka Lída, dcera Mráčkové
Jan Pivec | malíř portrétista Jan Rezek
Featured Crew
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Miroslav Cikán | Director
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Eduard Šimáček | Assistant Director
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Marta Russová | Story
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Marta Russová | Screenplay
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Miroslav Rutte | Screenplay
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Karel Degl | Director of Photography