Summary
Director Josef Mach demonstrated his loyalty to the regime with this 1971 psychological drama, which represents a typical example of a film production during the early period of “normalisation”. Pro-regime-oriented writer and scriptwriter Ivan Gariš contributed to the script for a story that is set in the 1950s. The protagonist is a capable engineer who is given a fresh chance despite the fact that he has not taken part in the general “constructive” enthusiasm sought by the communists. However, thanks to the obliging chairman of the enterprise’s communist party committee, he is able to recognise his mistake. He then goes on to expose a conspiracy of emigrants who are trying to obtain his discovery. Jiřina Švorcová features in the emblematic role of an orthodox communist. She had played similar roles stretching back two decades.
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