At the end of the First World War, Nikola Shuhai and his friend from the army desert. On the way home, to the village of Kolochava, they both find refuge with baby Jaga. Jaga mixes them a drink to protect them from the deadly bullets. The bachelors must promise to marry her daughters in exchange for a drink, or they will be punished. Nikola finds his home village in poverty. He stands against the powerful and the rich, and they turn the gendarmes against him. Nikola hides from them in the woods, where he will remain even after the end of the war, because nothing has changed for the villagers. Out of poverty and hopelessness, other men join Nikola and together they raid the wealthy. Nikola distributes the obtained booty to the poor and needy, who see him as their protector and hero.
Gustav Nezval
Ludmila Vostrčilová
Jiří Plachý
Saša Rašilov
Vladimír Salač
Jaroslav Vojta
Otto Rubík
František Kovářík
Jiří Dohnal
Miroslav Homola
Stanislav Neumann
Vilém Pfeiffer
Vítězslav Vejražka
Anna Kubalová
Lída Matoušková
Antonín Soukup
Lola Skrbková
Emanuel Kovařík
Stanislava Strobachová
Vladimír Řepa
Marie Vášová
Hermína Vojtová
Vladimír Šmeral
Hana Maria Pravda
Světla Svozilová
František Miška
Jana Romanová
Helena Bártlová
František Marek
Ella Nollová
Jára Pospíšil
Karel Kolár
Jiří Steimar
Vlasta Vlasáková
Anna Kadeřábková
Darja Hajská
Emanuel Hříbal
Václav Trégl
Antonín Jedlička
Josef Hořánek
Antonín Jirsa
Martin Raus
Karel Kalista
F. X. Mlejnek
Jan W. Speerger
Lída Jírů
Zdeněk Borovec
Josef Vinklář
Lída Chválová
Jiří Vondrovič
Josef Chvalina
Theodor Pištěk
Alois Dvorský
Zdeněk Šavrda
Marie Blažková
Zita Bergerová
Zdenka Bezručová
Karel Pfeiffer
Věra Motyčková
Marta Májová
Jaroslava Ziková