

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
Trustee

Václav Neckář
Pavel Hvezdár

Jitka Zelenohorská
Jitka

Vlastimil Brodský
Professor
Vladimír Ptáček
Mlíkar
Ferdinand Krůta
Kudla

František Řehák
Drobecek

Leoš Suchařípa
Public Prosecutor
Eugen Jegorov
Saxophonist

Naďa Urbánková
Lenka

Věra Křesadlová
Convict

Jaroslav Satoranský
Guard Andel

Jiřina Štěpničková
Pavel's Mother
Karel Mareš
Ladislav Šimek

Otakar Brousek

Míla Myslíková

Věra Ferbasová
Convict

Vladimír Šmeral
Minister

Jiřina Třebická
Drobečková
Jiří Menzel
Jiří Menzel, Bohumil Hrabal
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