Venice Film Festival 1955
Karel Höger
as Bedřich Smetana
Zdenka Procházková
as Bettyna, Smetana's wife
Jaromír Spal
as writer Jan Neruda
Bedřich Karen
as dr. Ladislav Rieger
Vlasta Fialová
as paní Fröjda
Oldřich Lukeš
as Karel Sabina
Eduard Cupák
as Antonín Dvořák
Jana Rybářová
as writer Eliška Krásnohorská
Libuše Matějová
as Otylie Malá
Eduard Kohout
as dr. K. Sladkovský
Zdeněk Dítě
as poet Vítězslav Hálek
Jiří Vršťala
as Karel Purkyně