The plot begins in the Soviet Union showing first efforts to establish the Czechoslovak legion in 1942. The film also shows the assassination of Heydrich and the subsequent annihilation of Lidice. The main topis of the film is battles with German troops for Sokolovo.
Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia Soviet Union Soviet Union
Ladislav Chudík Vladimir Samoylov Yuriy Solomin Bohumil Pastorek Martin Štěpánek Lev Ivanov Jiří Pleskot Hannjo Hasse Vladimír Ráž Josef Langmiler Ladislav Hádl Ivan Ryzhov Yuriy Nazarov Vladimir Protasenko Semyon Morozov Raisa Pirozhenko Zhanna Prokhorenko Lyubov Sokolova Nikolay Eryomenko Lyudmila Gladunko Štefan Kvietik Pavel Pípal Jiří Krampol Jan Kanyza Rudolf Jelínek Jiří Havel Jiří Klem Miroslav Rataj Petr Skarke František Vicena Lída Plachá Gennadiy Yukhtin Aleksandr Lebedev Ladislav Lakomý Emil Horváth Renáta Doleželová Helena Kucharíková Jaroslav Rozsíval Jaroslava Tichá Vítězslav Jandák Günther Zschieschow Stanislav Korenev Pyotr Lyubeshkin Alexei Chernov Boris Rudnev Stanislav Zhitarev Karel Šebesta Zdena Burdová Jitka Zelenohorská Adolf Filip Karel Hábl Zdeněk Hodr Jiří Holý Jiří Zahajský Václav Mareš Jan Krafka Vladimír Matějček Alois Švehlík Miroslav Moravec Gustav Nezval Jan Pohan Karel Sekera Zdeněk Mlčoch Jiří Adamec Jan Bartoš Stanislav Benda Arnošt Böhm Karel Engel František Faust Jiří Plachý Otakar Rademacher Jindřich Sejk Jiří Sládek Jaroslav Šanda Oldřich Semerák Jan Váňa Karel Vítek Jaroslav Vlk Miroslav Jíra Jiří Kasík Jaroslav Klenot Jiří Klenot Zbyněk Krákora Jiří Kraus Jaroslav Tomsa Jiří Kalenský Josef Fiala Jiří Hein Petr Herrmann Petr Lányi Milan Novotný Antonín Žemlička Vladimír Pavlar Antonín Hardt Milan Livora Vladimír Navrátil Jiří Flíček Zdeněk Novotný Miloslav Homola Petr Pelzer Ludvík Pozník Raoul Schránil Bert Schneider Aleš Širc Miloslav Šindler Václav Fišer Renate Heymer Zdeněk Hess Zdeněk Hübner J. Kunovac Vít Pešina Viktor Preiss Jiří Kodet Boris Švec Oldřich Vlček Petr Voštiar Ludvík Wolf Zora Jiráková Pavel Jiras Libuše Jiskrová Milena Kaplická Rudolf Kalina Dalimil Klapka Ivo Kubečka Augustín Kubán Hugo Kaminský Věra Ševčíková Bohumil Švarc Vladimír Fišer
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