

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
Lead
Václav Neckář
Pavel Hvezdár

Jitka Zelenohorská
Jitka

Vlastimil Brodský
Professor
Vladimír Ptáček
Mlíkar
Ferdinand Krůta
Kudla

František Řehák
Drobecek

Leoš Suchařípa
Public Prosecutor
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