"In early 20th century Czechoslovakia, a gravely ill chemist recalls his discovery of a powerful explosive and how it landed in the hands of anarchists."
Karel Höger
as Prokop
Florence Marly
as Princess Wilhelmina Hagen
Jiří Plachý
as D'Hemon
Nataša Tanská
as Anna Tomes
František Smolík
as Dr. Tomeš
Miroslav Homola
as Jiří Tomeš
Eduard Linkers
as Carson
Vlasta Fabianová
as The Woman with the Veil
Jaroslav Průcha
as
Bedřich Vrbský
as Baron Rohn
Karel Dostal
as Professor in Dream
Bohuš Hradil
as Holz
František Vnouček
as Agitational Orator
Vítězslav Boček
Jiřina Petrovická
as The Nurse
Jaroslav Zrotal
as The Doctor
Zvonimir Rogoz
Antonín Jirsa
Magda Kopřivová
Zdeněk Hodr
František Marek
Anna Gabrielová
Filip Balek-Brodský
Ema Hrubá
Ema Kreutzerová
Ann Sortreed
Margarette Previtali
Stojanka Mustafova
Tsiao-Jeh
Margaret Amakof
Čebeh Čančinov
Di Lazari
Di Manignati
Růžena Mazalová
Karel Feix
Executive Producer
Otakar Vávra
Creative Producer
Jaroslav R. Vávra
Screenplay
Jindřich Polák
Assistant Director
Věra Ženíšková
Script
Felix Leibl
Assistant Camera
Rudolf Stahl
František Rieger
Set Decoration
Štěpán Dušánek
Costumer
Bohuslava Havrdová
Ladislav Tomek
R. Nováková
J. Janda
Makeup & Hair
Bohumil Šmída
Production Manager
Miroslav Šimonek
Unit Production Manager
Jiří Pokorný
Fr. Švehla
Accountant
Otakar Pařík
Conductor
Director
Karel Čapek
Novel
Jiří Srnka
Original Music Composer
Václav Hanuš
Director of Photography
František Milič
Marie Bartoňková
Costume Consultant
Václav Kamarád
Makeup Artist
Oldřich Mach
Antonín Zelenka
Editor
Emil Poledník
Sound
Jiří Kollinger
Assistant Production Design
Jan Zázvorka
Production Design