
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












