Summary
In the 1970s, pro-regime writer Ivan Gariš took part in several projects which were made to order for the “normalised” Czechoslovak state. The main characters of this 1972 drama, set in the 1950s, are members of the State Security Force who come to the village of Mezilesí to investigate the murder of a local communist functionary. They discover that the perpetrators are opponents of collectivisation, who are preparing a bold sabotage. The director of the film, which even today remains a good example of a genre work combined with ideological content, was Ivo Toman, for many years a specialist in politically high-profile film projects.
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