A prisoner, a saboteur, and a railway—Czechoslovakia's guiltiest pleasure propaganda.
An optimistic collective drama from the life of the workers on the construction site of the Youth Track. An amnestied prisoner wants to atone for his wrongdoing with an honest strike and reveals the vandal who was going to poison the drinking water cistern.
Production
Massive socialist-realist construction site spectacle.
Acting
Chramostová's committed true-believer energy.
Director
K.M. Walló
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot during the height of Czechoslovak Stalinist cinema, this was one of dozens of 'construction epics' designed to glorify Five-Year Plans through melodrama.
Director K.M. Walló was later imprisoned in the 1950s show trials his films helped enable—a bitter irony the regime never acknowledged.
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