In the Škoda factory, where they are feverishly rearming in 1914, works the foreman Kalina, the father of the young men Pavel and Jan. Pavel is a supporter of the monarchy, while Jan, on the contrary, defends the idea of our national independence. Just before mobilization, Jan escapes to Russia, where he joins a group of volunteer legionnaires called the "Czech Company", fighting against the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Pavel enlists in the Austrian army. The brothers do not meet again until July 1917 in the battle of Zborov in Ukraine, which marked a successful breakthrough of the Austro-Hungarian front.
Ladislav Boháč
as Pavel Kalina / Commentary (voice)
Vladimír Šmeral
as Jeník Kalina
Jiří Plachý
as Rabas
František Vnouček
as Miloš
Gabriel Hart
as Kodeš
Franz Richter
as
František Smolík
as Kalina
Marie Ptáková
as Anna Kalinová
Jarmila Beránková
as Hanička Langrová
Václav Trégl
as Karel Ledvina
Vítězslav Boček
as Zamrazil
Karel Dymák
as Kolja Nikolaj Andrejevič Semjaško
