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

Karel Dostal

as writer Josef Wenzig

Štěpán Bulejko

as composer Franz Liszt

Bedřich Vrbský

as count Harrach

Rudolf Walter

as count of Thurn-Taxis

Ludmila Vendlová

as Sophie, Smetana's daughter

Václav Švorc

as Josef Schwarz, Žofi's fiancé

Bohumil Aisman

as Ferdinandi

Jarmila Pechová

as singer Eleonora of the Ehrenbergs

Felix le Breux

as bandleader Maýr

Gustav Hilmar

as rector of Pivoda

Václav Vydra

as rector Krejčí

Jiří Steimar

as rector Thomé

Gustav Heverle

as referent Linhart

Karel Jičínský

as dr. Ambros

František Kreuzmann

as S. Goldsmith

Saša Danešová

as Maid Baruska

Nelly Gaierová

as Taxisová

Milada Matysová

as Harrachová

Eduard Dubský

as music correspondent Werner

Vladimír Borský

as Mrs. Fröjda's husband

Antonín Kandert

as man in Sweden

Raoul Schránil

as man in Sweden

Gabriela Bártlová-Buddeusová

as woman in Sweden

František Filipovský

as principal of comedians

František Kovářík

as village teacher

Miloš Nedbal

as man in society

Ella Šárková

as laundress

Petr Haničinec

as young villager

Josef Příhoda

as old villager

Arnošt Martínek

as Zdeněk Fibich

Emilie Urbanová-Jeřábková

as Barbora Smetanová

Helena Krtičková

as Salomonová

Emil Dlesk

as butler

Otto Čermák

as

Antonín Rýdl

as

Marta Májová

as woman in the crowd at the National Theater

Inka Vostřezová

as girl with a bouquet

Jarmil Burghauser

as

Ivo Žídek

as Jeník

Rudolf Cortés

as Dalibor (only playing)

Marie Podvalová

as plays and sings Libuše

Beno Blachut

as sings and plays

Václav Bednář

as sings and plays

Luděk Mandaus

as sings and plays

Vojen Novák

as sings and plays

Milada Čadikovičová

as sings and plays

Jan Konstantin

as sings and plays

Bohumír Vích

as sings and plays

Josef Vojta

as sings and plays

Rudolf Asmus

as sings and plays

Karel Kocourek

as

Slávka Jägrová

as

Ladislav Kulhánek

as

Marie Lukášová

as

Václava Austová

as

Jiřina Součková

as

Karel Hirsch

as

Déda Papež

as

Hynek Němec

as

Adam Novák

as

Jaroslav Vágner

as