In the middle of the eighteenth century, at the time of the Prusso-Austrian War, a cuirassier, a hussar and an infantryman meet by chance and hide together in a secluded place. The war has left different marks on each of them, but they all long for normal human happiness. Although they initially have different attitudes towards military service, they are changed by their stay in seclusion and the atmosphere of life in a peasant cottage and refuse to return to the Austrian army. But all three Theresian "misfits" take up arms again, which they no longer want to touch, when the solitude is overrun by the Prussians. They manage to cover the escape of the family and their child, but pay with their lives.
Gustáv Valach
as Cuirassier
Stanislav Fišer
as Infantryman Václav
Vladimír Hlavatý
as Hussar
Alena Vránová
as Baruska
Radovan Lukavský
as Jira
Karel Enzmann
as Prussian officer
Jan Maška
as Soldier Safarík
Vladimír Huber
as Peasant
Ladislav Gzela
as Ziethen's hussar
Vladimír Klemens
as Ziethen's hussar
Eva Očenášová
as Peasant woman
Ivana Fišerová
as Child on the car
