Theodore Dreiser: An American Tragedy

On his way to success in life, he literally sacrifices his first love - Clyde Griffiths, the protagonist of Theodore Dreiser's famous novel American Tragedy. He decides to commit a crime for the sake of his career, but ends up becoming a victim of the judicial machine himself. A two-part adaptation of a classic work of American literature with an all-star cast. Clyde Griffiths is the son of a poor street preacher and wants to rise from his family's adverse circumstances. He applies for a job in his rich uncle's factory, where he meets a young girl named Roberta Allen. He falls in love with her, and they are soon expecting a child, but in the meantime Clyde senses an opportunity to marry Sandra Finchley, a rich millionaire's daughter. He cannot resist the opportunity to rise definitively above the conditions from which he emerged. He gets rid of his pregnant mistress, but acts very clumsily and is soon discovered, tried and executed. The cast includes Svatopluk Skopal, Viktor Preiss, Rudolf Hrušínský st., Eduard Cupák, Vladimír Brabec and others.