Casts & Crew
Oldřich Kaiser
Škopek
Renata Hornová
Jana Havelková
Ivana Andrlová
Zuzana
Petr Nárožný
Havelka
Míla Myslíková
Havelková
Karel Augusta
Vavřinec
Jana Drbohlavová
Vavřincová
Jana Dítětová
Aunt
Jiří Lábus
TV Technician
Ladislav Potměšil
Jana's Boyfriend
Also Directed by Ivo Novák
It is 5 May 1945 and the uprising against the hated German occupiers has broken out in Prague. The Czech guards open the gate of the Pankrác prison to allow the prisoners to escape en masse. Many of them are shot dead by the German guards but young Ruda (Jaromír Hanzlík) manages to run away. He is taken care of by one of the Prague fighters, concierge Kytka. Kytka hides him in the flat of the house's owner where only the young maid Karla (Jana Brejchová) is left, ordering her to take care of Ruda.
Explores young adults' fears of being conscripted by the communist government into working outside of Prague, a relative oasis of creativity and freedom of thought. From an early script by Milos Forman.