"The happenings in a shoe factory serve as a not very thinly veiled examination of the pros and cons of both socialism and democracy."
Vítězslav Vejražka
as Factory Boss
Vilém Besser
as Josef Horák
Eva Kubešová
as Marie Dornáková
Zdeněk Řehoř
as Manager Antonín
Oldřich Vykypěl
as Lojza Andres
Petr Skála
as Jakub
Ota Sklenčka
as Ort
Marie Vášová
as Elsa
Rudolf Hrušínský
as Sram
Božena Böhmová
as Lojzka Andresová
Jarmila Kurandová
as Horáková, Josk's mother
Oldřich Lukeš
as agitator Nikodým
J. O. Martin
as agitator Pazdera
Věra Benšová
as worker
Jan Skopeček
as laborer
Karel Houska
as personal clerk and master
Jaroslav Toť
Vlasta Fialová
as Secretary Anna Vebrová
Kamil Olšovský
as
Vladimír Řepa
Miloš Willig
František Peterka
František Vnouček
Hynek Němec
Gustav Hrdlička
as barber
Josef Chvalina
as employee informant
Rudolf Myzet
as american guest
Josef Maršálek
as personnel officer
Marie Pavlíková
as boss's wife
Věra Váchová
as woman in society
Zdeněk Šavrda
as gendarme
Zdeněk Jelínek
as official
Miloš Vavruška
as worker burning shoes
Oleg Reif
as Baťa's young man
František Šlégr
as district governor
Eva Marie Kavanová
as interpreters
Marie Nademlejnská
as peas
Josef Kotapiš
as secret agent
Svatopluk Majer
as bailiff
Bedřich Bozděch
as guard
Anna Pitašová
Zdeněk Hodr
as doctor
Ema Skálová
Otto Šimánek
Štěpán Bulejko
as Hans Hahn, director of the German branch
Arnošt Faltýnek
as worker in a meeting
Jan Šmíd
as guest in a cafe
Rudolf Široký
as stoker
Libuše Zemková
as woman at the party
Miroslav Homola
as Fiegel
Emma Kovárnová
as pianist
Karel Hovorka
as Upset Worker
Karel Pavlík
Václav Švec
as officer
Jiří Němeček
as meeting participant
Dagmar Drašarová
Jiřina Bílá
as secretary of the young boss
Miloš Liška
Jaroslava Panenková
as boarding school educator
Antonín Klimeš
Ljuba Benešová
Kamil Bešťák
Kamil Blahovec
Jiří Čeporan
Eva Foustková
Věra Joudová
Josef Bárta
Karel Kocourek
Jiří Koudelka
Ladislav Mandík
Přemysl Matoušek
Karel Maršálek
Otakar Moučka
Š. Miškovcová
Jarmila Navrátilová
Miroslav Olejníček
Jan Pilař
Luděk Pilc
Eugenie Podhorská
Jaroslav Radimecký
Ladislav Sedláček
Stanislav Sedláček
Oldřich Šmalcl
J. V. Švec
Gustav Urban
Eliška Velímská
T. Svatopluk
Novel
K.M. Walló
Screenplay
Rudolf Jokl
Assistant Camera
Stanislav Kautský
Josef Mathauser
Unit Production Manager
Jan Zázvorka
Production Design
Josef Hrnčíř
Conductor
Viktor Karásek
Assistant Director
Jan Kapr
Original Music Composer
Milivoj Uzelac
Libuše Malá
Adolf Nacházel
Sound
Josef Mann
Makeup & Hair
Barbora Adolfová
Costumer
Jiří Mikeťuk
František Sandr
Production Manager
Otakar Vávra
Julius Vegricht
Director of Photography
Stanislav Vondraš
Makeup Department Head
Fernand Vácha
Costume Design
Vladimír Synek
Jiřina Lukešová
Editor
Director
Jan Janda
Set Decoration
Josef Němeček