90 minutes
2/24/1956
The year is 1918. Toník returns home from the front. In Kladno, where he arrives, things are seething with discontent. The Social Democrats are in government, but nothing has changed. Socialization has not been implemented, there is hunger and food is still being skimped on. The first news about a socialist state arrives from Russia. On May 1st, the workers' Kladno manifests its loyalty to the ideals of the Great October Socialist Revolution. In December 1920, a general strike is declared in Kladno as well. The workers arm themselves, workers' councils take over the administration of the city and are also established in the surrounding villages. An armed uprising is being prepared. However, the right-wing leadership of the Social Democratic Party attacks the workers in the back. The army is sent to Kladno...
Josef Bek
as Toník
Vlasta Chramostová
as Marka, Toník's wife
Jaroslav Průcha
as Vanek
Marie Ježková
as Vanek's wife
Vlasta Fabianová
as widow Rézina
Jaroslav Vojta
as Sádek
Vilém Besser
as worker Václav
Jarmila Kurandová
as widow Minarikova
Eva Jiroušková
as Anca
Josef Beyvl
as Dubec
Oldřich Lukeš
as Feigl
Rudolf Deyl
as Vrázek
Vlastimil Brodský
as Holecek
Alena Kreuzmannová
as Rüza
Vladimír Leraus
as František Soukup
Felix le Breux
as editor Antonín Němec
Vladimír Řepa
as minister Karel Prášek
Martin Růžek
as district governor Rozsypal
František Vnouček
as Prime minister Vlastimil Tusar
Václav Kyzlink
as Bohumír Šmeral
Oldřich Vykypěl
as Loket
František Šlégr
as warden
Věra Kleinhamplová
as Maňka, daughter of Tonik and Marka
Renata Borová
as Maňka, daughter of Tonik and Marka
Karel Pavlík
as policeman
Gabriela Bártlová-Buddeusová
as Rozsypal's wife
Josef Bláha
as agricultural worker
Emil Bolek
as chairman of the communist meeting
František Holar
as farm employee
František Klika
as buyer
Jan S. Kolár
as director of large estates
Bohumil Křížek
as messenger from Prague
Svatopluk Majer
as gendarme
Hynek Němec
as agricultural worker
Karel Svoboda
as miner
Jiří Němeček
as commander of soldiers
Miloš Willig
as railwayman
Libuše Zemková
as Kladno's woman
Karel Hovorka
as newsboy
Josef Bartůněk
Kamil Blahovec
Naděžda Blažíčková
Sylva Byšická
František Fišer
Věra Hanslíková
Karel Kocourek
Stanislav Langer
Josef Loskot
Richard Záhorský
Nina Zvjagina
N. Ledererová
M. Kubalová