Morality Above All Else

Morality Above All Else

80 mins | Comedy | Feb. 24, 1937

Professor Karas is widely known as enthusiastic propagator of the motto "Morality Above All Else". He guides his students as well as his own family to live a morally decent life. One day he has an unexpected visit. It's his illegitimate daughter Vera, who is proof of his thoughtless youth. Mr. Karas know that she can ruin his image, thus he decides to keep her a secret and asks her to leave. Instead of leaving she takes a position of a governess in his own family without letting him know. Mr. Karas realizes that he must reveal the truth sooner or later, but he doesn't have enough courage to do so. As he postpones it, he is more and more scared to come to his own home.

Morality Above All Else

80 mins | Comedy | Feb. 24, 1937

Morality Above All Else
Professor Karas is widely known as enthusiastic propagator of the motto "Morality Above All Else". He guides his students as well as his own family to live a morally decent life. One day he has an unexpected visit. It's his illegitimate daughter Vera, who is proof of his thoughtless youth. Mr. Karas know that she can ruin his image, thus he decides to keep her a secret and asks her to leave. Instead of leaving she takes a position of a governess in his own family without letting him know. Mr. Karas realizes that he must reveal the truth sooner or later, but he doesn't have enough courage to do so. As he postpones it, he is more and more scared to come to his own home.
IMDb rating 7.7
Producers A-B
Original title Mravnost nade vše
Directors Walter Schorsch, Martin Frič
Writers J. Erbenová, Martin Frič, Hugo Haas, Otakar Vávra

Cast

Hugo Haas

as Professor Antonín Karas

Světla Svozilová

as Karolína Karasová - wife

Adina Mandlová

as Eva Karasová - daughter

Jiří Hlinomaz

as Ivan Karas - son

Ladislav Boháč

as MUDr. Jílkovský

Saša Rašilov

as JUDr. Mach - friend

Věra Ferbasová

as Vera Gregorova - illegitimate daughter

Mirko Eliáš

as Konrád - sculptor

Zdeňka Baldová

as Mr. Drázná - Executive Association for the Advancement of morality

Marie Ptáková

as Mr. Roubalová - Executive Association for the Advancement of morality

Marie Pilská

as Member of the Association for the Advancement of morality

Milada Gampeová

as Mr. Nyklasová - Executive Association for the Advancement of morality

Marie Ježková

as Madla - maid at Karas

Elsa Vetešníková

as Chambermaid in a hotel