Zlaté dno (1943)

The stationer and owner of a stationery shop, Cyril Putička (Vlasta Burian), lives in Černošín. He is happy to be able to sell things; it is the love of his life. One day, his children arrive: his sons Jaroslav and Vilém (Antonín Streit and Raoul Schránil) and his daughter Konstantina (Věra Ferbasová). They persuade him to sell his shop to Mr. Nový (Antonín Brož) and move with them to Prague, where a luxurious apartment is already waiting for him. He listens to them, but his children forbid him to work, give him lots of money, and neglect him badly. He is terribly unhappy. His daughter gets engaged, and at the engagement party he proves to be an excellent entertainer and joker. But then he has nothing to do, and so he falls into depression. He decides to buy his little shop back, but Nový refuses. He tries to get a job as a shop assistant. He meets the widow Jarmila Valentová (Zita Kabátová), who owns a little shop but is not doing very well. Putička persuades her to hire him, and he turns her shop around with his method of giving away gifts. Because of the job, he even breaks with his children. Later, Putička and Valentová expand their shop, and he marries her. Their stationery shop becomes one of the best in Prague. Five years later, he is reunited with his children, whose construction company has gone bankrupt and whose daughter Konstantina has divorced. Putička and Jarmila help them…