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.
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Rudolf Jelínek Jaroslava Panýrková Jan Pivec Blanka Waleská Jana Brejchová Zuzana Stivínová Ivo Palec Jiří Sehnal Vladimír Menšík Bohuš Záhorský Otomar Krejča Miloš Kopecký Radovan Lukavský Miloš Nesvadba František Vnouček Růžena Lysenková Pavla Maršálková Vladimír Hlavatý Felix le Breux Marie Ježková Darja Hajská Miroslav Svoboda Valja Petrová Jaroslava Tvrzníková Marie Drahokoupilová Oldřich František Korte Karel Brabec Miroslav Moravec Renata Tůmová Vítězslav Černý Josef Zíma Karel Krautgartner T. Pečkeová M. Balážová Z. Spurná J. Plevková
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