Duvod k rozvodu (1937)

Attractive girl Anna comes to a pawn shop. Her father lost his job and she wants to sell his illusionist equipment for 50 crowns. She tries to move the clerk by adding information that her father is a king of illusions and she is well known as his assistant "Caramel", but in vain. When leaving she is asked for help. Lady Helen Bertl wants to get 10.000 for her pearl necklace and needs some guidance. The clerk gets suspicious and Helen has to call her lawyer. The story is simple. Her husband Pavel Bertl belongs to young modern composers. His music is original but not popular. He drinks a lot, plays cards a lot and keeps a lot of social contacts. All this is financed by his wife. As she has no income, only limitless love for her man, her lawyer sees the disaster coming. He persuades Pavel to agree with a divorce and hires Anna as a pretext for it. Pavel with Anna shall go to the mountains and private eye Spargl will take a photo of Anna in Pavel's arms. But the girl falls in love with an illusionist Skala (stage name Sheridan) and wants to back off. The farce doesn't proceed as planned and Pavel ends without a dime in a first class hotel. He has to play piano for money. The banknote gained by an effort that is novel to him he saves and presents it as evidence of his work in a court. In spite of it the marriage is divorced and Anna has problems to pacify her jealous illusionist and drag him to the altar. There they meet Pavel and Helen Bertl who already succeeded in getting married again.