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...
as Toník
as Marka, Toník's wife
as Vanek
as Vanek's wife
as widow Rézina
as Sádek
as worker Václav
as widow Minarikova
as Anca
as Dubec
as Feigl
as Vrázek
as Holecek
as Rüza
as František Soukup
as editor Antonín Němec
as minister Karel Prášek
as district governor Rozsypal
as Prime minister Vlastimil Tusar
as Bohumír Šmeral
as Loket
as warden
as Maňka, daughter of Tonik and Marka
as Maňka, daughter of Tonik and Marka
as policeman
as Rozsypal's wife
as agricultural worker
as chairman of the communist meeting
as farm employee
as buyer
as director of large estates
as messenger from Prague
as gendarme
as agricultural worker
as miner
as commander of soldiers
as railwayman
as Kladno's woman
as newsboy
