85 minutes
4/27/1951
The course of an organized strike by workers from North Moravian steelworks in 1931 to resist mass layoffs during the economic crisis.

Oldřich Lukeš
as Franta

Jaroslav Mareš
as Jan

Bohuš Hradil
as Karel Žíbek, Jan's father

Jana Dítětová
as Marie

František Kovářík
as Kolarik

Marie Nademlejnská
as Marie's mother
Bedřich Vilský
as Josef Žíbek, Jan's brother
Majka Tomášová
as Ludmila, Josef's wife
Karel Peyr
as boss von Doderer

Miloslav Holub
as chief engineer Kotrna
Jarmil Škrdlant
as pomeranian Halík
Josef Chvalina
as Starek
Rudolf Široký
as captain of the gendarmes

Karel Houska
as Helmut

Stanislav Langer
as Director Jauris
Jaroslav Orlický
Josef Waltner
as member of the board of directors
Bohuš Tichý
as member of the board of directors
Vladimír Řepa
as Doder's henchman

Alois Dvorský
as Vinš
Lída Buzková
as Boženka
Hynek Němec
as German worker Fritz
Jan Matýsek
as laborer
Ferdinand Jarkovský
as laborer

Miroslav Doležal
as striker
Mirko Čech
as factory committee member
Adolf Šmíd
as striking worker
František Miroslav Doubrava
as striker

Magda Kopřivová
as striker's woman

Zdeněk Šavrda
as gendarme
Ladislav Sedláček
as warden
Štěpán Bulejko
as lieutenant of gendarmes
Bedřich Bozděch
as innkeeper
František Holar
as gendarme
Josef Steigl
as gendarme

Felix le Breux
as director of the metallurgical exchange

Marta Fričová
as French secretary
Věra Váchová
as secretary
Dagmar Appelová
as secretary
František Klika
as trade unionist
Vojta Plachý-Tůma
as trade unionist
Arnošt Mathé
as broker
Josef Hořánek
as porter in the hotel
František Marek
as butcher Dundr
Jindra Hermanová
as german woman
Antonín Holzinger
as postman
Ladislav Zápotocký
as Antonín Zápotocký
Miroslav Mráz
Jindřich Doležal
as Director Appelt
J. O. Martin
as Secretary of the German Trade Unions

František Hanus
as metal-rolling specialist from Rotava
Jiří Kostka
as metal-rolling specialist from Rotava

Radovan Lukavský
as striking metal-rolling specialist
Bohumil Machník
as union leader

Jaroslav Zrotal
as security

Antonie Hegerliková
as woman at the foreman
Karel Jelínek
as Otta

Bolek Prchal
as innkeeper
Ludmila Svobodová
as woman
Waldemara Treskoňová
Antonín Zápotocký
as Antonín Zápotocký (voice)