In the Škoda factory, where they are feverishly rearming in 1914, works the foreman Kalina, the father of the young men Pavel and Jan. Pavel is a supporter of the monarchy, while Jan, on the contrary, defends the idea of our national independence. Just before mobilization, Jan escapes to Russia, where he joins a group of volunteer legionnaires called the "Czech Company", fighting against the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Pavel enlists in the Austrian army. The brothers do not meet again until July 1917 in the battle of Zborov in Ukraine, which marked a successful breakthrough of the Austro-Hungarian front.
Ladislav Boháč
Pavel Kalina / Commentary (voice)
Vladimír Šmeral
Jeník Kalina
Jiří Plachý
Rabas
František Vnouček
Miloš
Gabriel Hart
Kodeš
Franz Richter
František Smolík
Kalina
Marie Ptáková
Anna Kalinová
Jarmila Beránková
Hanička Langrová
Václav Trégl
Karel Ledvina
Vítězslav Boček
Zamrazil
Karel Dymák
Kolja Nikolaj Andrejevič Semjaško
L. H. Struna
Karpíšek
František Kreuzmann
Halama
Alois Peterka
Hořica
