The Catacombs

The Catacombs

Comedy | Feb. 23, 1940

The title refers to the office of records in the basement of a large company... sort of the place where a troublesome employee may be dumped in a dead end job. If fact, the story is a simple romantic comedy, with Burian as the kindly old stick-in-the-mud who helps the young man to sort out his romance with the daughter of the company's owner.

The Catacombs

Comedy | Feb. 23, 1940

The Catacombs
The title refers to the office of records in the basement of a large company... sort of the place where a troublesome employee may be dumped in a dead end job. If fact, the story is a simple romantic comedy, with Burian as the kindly old stick-in-the-mud who helps the young man to sort out his romance with the daughter of the company's owner.
IMDb rating 7.3
Producers Ufa-Film
Original title Katakomby
Directors Rudolf Stahl, Eduard Šimáček, Martin Frič
Writers Karel Hrnčíř, Gustav Davis, Václav Wasserman

Cast

Vlasta Burian

as oficiál Borman

Jaroslav Marvan

as Sýkora, přednosta úřadu

Čeněk Šlégl

as Kryštof, ředitel Pozemkového úradu

Theodor Pištěk

as Klásek, prezidiální

Adina Mandlová

as Nasťa Borková

Antonín Novotný

as Dr. Marek, úredník

Raoul Schránil

as Ing. Jiří Rudík

Nataša Gollová

as Irena Krystofová

Růžena Šlemrová

as Malvína Klásková

Miloš Nedbal

as Kefurt, vrchní revident

Bohuš Záhorský

as Hlinka, revident

Jindřich Láznička

as Baltazar, sluha

František Filipovský

as Šmíd, servilní úredník

Věra Noháčová

as Barmanka