A story about the conditions in Bohemia in the second half of the nineteenth century, when small-town officials, such as Hrdlička, succumbed to the predators of the emerging large financial and industrial bourgeoisie, represented by Jestřáb.
František Smolík
as Hrdlicka
Jaroslav Marvan
as Jestráb
Vlasta Fabianová
as Hrdlickova
Taťána Vavřincová
as Irena
Vlasta Fialová
as Julca
Jan Pivec
as Romanov
František Kreuzmann
as Zamotal
Josef Bek
as Karel
Jiří Steimar
as Supovsky
Eva Klenová
as Supovska
Zdeněk Kryzánek
as Walewsky
Vladimír Jedenáctík
as Kotowsky
