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.
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Jaromír Hanzlík Jana Brejchová Vladimír Menšík Karel Höger Zdeněk Štěpánek Petr Kostka Bohuš Záhorský Ivan Mistrík Svatopluk Matyáš Radoslav Brzobohatý František Peterka Přemysl Kočí Josef Langmiler Josef Větrovec Jan Cmíral Vít Olmer Štěpán Bulejko Jaroslav Mareš Jan Skopeček Čestmír Řanda Jaroslav Moučka Lubomír Kostelka Zdeněk Kryzánek Miloš Hlavica Vlasta Chramostová Jiří Steimar Marie Brožová Svatopluk Beneš Rudolf Pellar Gustav Opočenský Jindřich Narenta Jiří Pleskot Taťána Vavřincová Jorga Kotrbová Jaroslav Satoranský Jaroslav Mařan Lubomír Bryg Arnošt Faltýnek Ivo Gübel Miroslav Homola Zdeněk Hodr Ivan Vyskočil Karel Hábl Jaromír Spal Vilém Besser Václav Fišer Josef Kemr Zdeněk Kutil Jiří Zahajský Miloš Willig Jiří Krampol Otto Lackovič Rudolf Jelínek Jan Pohan Jindřich Heidelberg Ivo Niederle Petr Svojtka Aleš Helcelet Ladislav Trojan Zdeněk Ornest Jan Diviš Jan Faltýnek Václav Sloup Karel Hlušička Vladimír Hrabánek Bohumil Koška Zdeněk Braunschläger Stanislav Litera Ladislav Čermák Karel Hovorka Eduard Dubský Ladislav Potměšil Jan Kotva Zdeněk Najman František Marek Eva Jandáčková Ivona Nováková Jan Jílek František Hruška Miloslav Šindler Jiří Cimický Karel Engel Jiří Kasík Antonín Kryl Otakar Rademacher Jindřich Sejk Jiří Svárovský Oldřich Semerák Jan Váňa Karel Vítek Ludvík Wolf Josef Schneider P. Stejskal Karel Kryška Miloslav Novák Viktor Oktábec Josef Šulc Antonín Molčík Jan Víšek Norbert Chotaš Oldřich Šmalcl Václav Štekl Jiří Sedlmajer Jiří Štěpnička Jaroslav Toms Petr Sedláček Eliška Konopisková Zdeňka Tichá Eva Vlachová Karel Pavlík Jaroslav Tomsa Václav Vondráček Miloš Vavruška Vladimír Linka Jiří Wimmer Vladimír Zoubek Stanislav Zindulka V. Kadlčík Jan Libíček Vladimír Hrubý
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