Francin, manager of a small-town brewery, has a charming wife whose abundant blonde locks are an adornment to the town. Maryska looks ethereal but loves meat and beer, while Francin is an ascetic. The strict members of the brewery board of directors come to audit the accounts, but are diverted from concentrating on Francin's detailed reports by Maryska, who has organized a pig-killing feast and is ably assisting the butcher. When she invites the old curmudgeons on the board to enjoy the fresh pork, they are too happy to agree. Francin doesn't know whether he is going to get a permanent contract. To make things worse his brother Pepin - eccentric, noisy and garrulous - turns up on an indefinite visit.
Magda Vášáryová
as Maryška
Jiří Schmitzer
as správce pivovaru Francin, Maryščin muž
Jaromír Hanzlík
as Pepin, Francinův bratr
Rudolf Hrušínský
as MUDr. Gruntorád, předseda správní rady pivovaru
Petr Čepek
as mistr kominický de Giorgi, člen správní rady
Oldřich Vlach
as hoteliér Růžička
František Řehák
as statkář Vejvoda
Miloslav Štibich
as kovář Bernádek
Alois Liškutín
as ředitel spořitelny Šefl
Pavel Vondruška
as notář Lustig
Rudolf Hrušínský
as sladovník v pivovaře
Oldřich Vízner
as kadeřník Boďa Červinka
