Based on Jan Neruda’s column of the same name, which depicts the troubles of an old straw man. The film is introduced by poet Jaroslav Seifert with a speech about Jan Neruda and his work.
Karel Höger | Jiřina Steimarová | Milka Balek-Brodská | Gabriela Bártlová | Jiřina Bílá | Emil Bolek | Rudolf Deyl ml. | Josef Hlinomaz | Vladimír Klemens | Adam Novák | Věra Petáková | Ludmila Píchová | J. Procházka | Josef Prihoda | Slávka Rosenbergová | Eva Svobodová | Ladislav Herbert Struna | Josef Steigl | Ferdinand Šafránek | Josef Vošalík | Stella Zázvorková | Antonín Soukup | Ferdinand Jarkovský | Vladimír Bejval | M. Tišák | Miloš Kopecký | Eman Fiala | Marie Nademlejnská | Emil Dlesk | Vladimír Jedenáctík | Milan Linhart | Jaruška Linhartová | M. Šilhavý