"In post-WWII Communist Czechoslovakia, several characters considered bourgeois are sentenced to work in a junkyard for rehabilitation. Among them is a young man who pines for a female convict."
Rudolf Hrušínský
as Trustee
Václav Neckář
as Pavel Hvezdár
Jitka Zelenohorská
as Jitka
Vlastimil Brodský
as Professor
Vladimír Ptáček
as Mlíkar
Ferdinand Krůta
as Kudla
František Řehák
as Drobecek
Leoš Suchařípa
as Public Prosecutor
Eugen Jegorov
as Saxophonist
Naďa Urbánková
as Lenka
Věra Křesadlová
as Convict
Jaroslav Satoranský
as Guard Andel
Jiřina Štěpničková
as Pavel's Mother
Karel Mareš
as
Ladislav Šimek
Otakar Brousek
Míla Myslíková
Věra Ferbasová
Vladimír Šmeral
as Minister
Jiřina Třebická
as Drobečková
Stella Zázvorková
Tereza Bariová
Věra Galatíková
Vlasta Jelínková
Zora Jiráková
Gustav Oplustil
Miloš Kohout
Zdeněk Svěrák
Eva Blažková
Zdena Burdová
Eva Rubínová
Jiří Menzel
Bořivoj Fiala
Oldřich Janovský
Karel Hovorka
Bohumil Koška
Miroslav Saic
Alois Vachek
Miloslav Balcar
Alena Frimlová
Hana Talpová
Jan Teplý
Jindřiška Gabriela Preissová
Rudolf Kalina
Jiří Kasík
Vladimír Hrabánek
Antonín Gondolán
František Gondolán
Jiří Gondolán
Vojtěch Gondolán
Ondřej Gondolán
Rudolf Pešta
Antonín Samler
Jan Vala
Jarmila Gybasová
Eva Vejlová
Helena Velenovská
Jitka Molavcová
Marie Benetková
Ivana Horká
Eva Podzimková
H. Cermanová
H. Ruprichová
J. Šprachtová
Jaromír Šofr
Director of Photography
Jiřina Lukešová
Editor
Jiří Šust
Original Music Composer
Director
Screenplay
First Assistant Director
Josef Sandr
Assistant Director
Petr Čech
Camera Operator
Jiří Kučera
Assistant Camera
Bohumil Hrabal
Short Story
Václav Nývlt
Dramaturgy
Bohumil Nový
Assistant Production Design
Marie Zahradníková
Script
Oldřich Bosák
Production Design
Eva Horázná
Assistant Editor
Karel Kochman
Production Manager
Josef Lojík
Makeup & Hair
Vladimír Mácha
Set Decoration
M. Dostálová
Costumer
Marie Džbánková
Taťána Bargárová
Assistant Production Manager
Václav Kozel
Rudolf Beneš
Jiří Pavlík
Sound
Jaroslav Koucký
Unit Production Manager
Štěpán Koníček
Conductor
Pavel Juráček
Creative Producer
Jaroslav Kučera
Executive Producer
Dana Poláková
Dagmar Krausová
Jiří Nevařil
Karel Škop
Josef Janoušek
Still Photographer