In 1866 the Prussians withdraw from the German alliance and declare war on Austria. A sergeant of this army forces a Czech young man named Ludvík Machl to execute himself by hanging. However, the unfortunate man’s road to death had already begun earlier. Ludvík was one of the patriotic conspirators who, among other things, had seized money from the Austrian printing press. However, he was tracked down in his lodgings by the police, who discovered some of the looted money and a pistol. Unlike the three other conspirators, however, Commissioner Melc offers him his freedom - if Ludwig becomes an agent of the Austrian police. Frightened, Machl signs under duress…
Length 101 minutes
Olaf Lubaszenko | Petr Čepek | Wiktor Zborowski | Anna Majcher | Michał Pawlicki | Adam Ferency | Jiří Kodet | Jerzy Kryszak | Sabina Laurinová | Joanna Trzepiecińska | Jan Přeučil | František Staněk | Daniel Landa | Miriam Kantorková | Marta Richterová | Jiří Němeček | Oldřich Velen | Ivo Niederle | Václav Bouška | Václav Kotva | Jan Kraus | Viktor Nejedlý ml. | Karel Sekera | Zdeněk Srstka | Pavel Grégr | Miloš Haken | Piotr Pawłowski | Borys Marynowski | Leszek Teleszynski | Bolesław Abart | Eugeniusz Kujawski | Anna Garwolińska | Andrzej Mrozek | Andrzej Bielski | Jan Blecki | Marek Idziński | Mieczysław Janowski | Andrzej Kowalik | Blanka Blahníková | Lubomír Kostelka | Hana Militká | Luděk Žilka | Jiří Krytinář | František Michálek | J. Trnka | Oldřich Hrůza | Petr Záruba | Václav Fugner | Stanislav Halbich | František Hradil | Jaroslav Hrdina | František Maximovič | Ctibor Mestek | Karel Sommer | Václav Šimek | M. Urban | Slavomil Vrzal | Marek Bargiełowski | Marek Kondrat | Aleksander Gawroński | Stanisław Gawlik | Teresa Lipowska | Jan Mateusz Nowakowski | Stanisław Biczysko