Overview

In the Škoda factory, where they are feverishly rearming in 1914, works the foreman Kalina, the father of the young men Pavel and Jan. Pavel is a supporter of the monarchy, while Jan, on the contrary, defends the idea of ​​our national independence. Just before mobilization, Jan escapes to Russia, where he joins a group of volunteer legionnaires called the "Czech Company", fighting against the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Pavel enlists in the Austrian army. The brothers do not meet again until July 1917 in the battle of Zborov in Ukraine, which marked a successful breakthrough of the Austro-Hungarian front.

Genres

Cast

Ladislav Boháč

Pavel Kalina / Commentary (voice)

Vladimír Šmeral

Jeník Kalina

Jiří Plachý

Rabas

František Vnouček

Miloš

František Smolík

Kalina

Marie Ptáková

Anna Kalinová

Jarmila Beránková

Hanička Langrová

Václav Trégl

Karel Ledvina

Vítězslav Boček

Zamrazil

L. H. Struna

Karpíšek

František Kreuzmann

Halama

Stanislav Neumann

Kopecký