The House of the Five Squirrels(1944)

Name: The House of the Five Squirrels (1944)
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1944-02-25

7.31h 20mComedy

Directed by Miroslav Cikán

Written by Marta Russová, Miroslav Rutte

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Overview

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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