In the middle of the eighteenth century, at the time of the Prusso-Austrian War, a cuirassier, a hussar and an infantryman meet by chance and hide together in a secluded place. The war has left different marks on each of them, but they all long for normal human happiness. Although they initially have different attitudes towards military service, they are changed by their stay in seclusion and the atmosphere of life in a peasant cottage and refuse to return to the Austrian army. But all three Theresian "misfits" take up arms again, which they no longer want to touch, when the solitude is overrun by the Prussians. They manage to cover the escape of the family and their child, but pay with their lives.
Directed by Miloš Makovec
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Cast
Gustáv Valach
Cuirassier
Stanislav Fišer
Infantryman Václav
Vladimír Hlavatý
Hussar
Alena Vránová
Baruska
Radovan Lukavský
Jira
Karel Enzmann
Prussian officer
Jan Maška
Soldier Safarík
Vladimír Huber
Peasant
Ladislav Gzela
Ziethen's hussar
Vladimír Klemens
Ziethen's hussar
Eva Očenášová
Peasant woman
Ivana Fišerová
Child on the car
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