Michal's father and his friends are stigmatized by their war experience and the post-war social deformations in which they took part either directly, or watched them cowardly and in silence. They are trying to repress their feelings of guilt and justify their behavior to the young generation with memories of their heroic war feats. Michal, however, does not want to have anything to do with their problems. He subconsciously perceives the unpleasant atmosphere in the family as well as his father's hypocrisy. After one of many quarrels with his father, he runs away from home, determined to go his own way.
Jaromír Hanzlík
Jiří Pleskot
Jiřina Jirásková
Vladimír Šmeral
Alexandra Myšková
Jana Brejchová
Jiří Holý
Miroslav Macháček
Nataša Gollová
Jan Kačer
Táňa Fischerová
Alena Bradáčová
Jiří Adamíra
Zdeněk Řehoř
Ladislav Mrkvička
Jiří Hrzán
Jan Horníček
Karel Kafka
Karel Karas
Helena Samohelová
Karel Vašta
Jiří Menzel
Martin Brož
Hynek Sedláček
Alena Kreuzmannová
Olga Čuříková