Jan Pivec

critic Pošahal

Josef Kemr

Jan Přehršle

Zdeňka Baldová

Přehršle's mother-in-law

Gustav Heverle

construction director Bláha

Vlasta Burian

accountant Dušek

Vlastimil Brodský

accountant Macek

František Vnouček

editor in chief

František Filipovský

Secretary to the Minister

Miloš Nedbal

Director

Lubomír Lipský

Chief Accountant Pištora

Ladislav Pešek

commentator

Ladislav Boháč

film director

Zdeněk Řehoř

poet Jan Hovorka

František Hanus

author of the film script

Božena Obrová

Ludmila Vostrčilová

Týna, Přehršle's wife

Marie Nademlejnská

clerk miss Vinklářová

Stella Zázvorková

Pošahalová

Robert Vrchota

cameraman

Josef Hlinomaz

recruitment officer

Eduard Dubský

clerk Pulkrábek

Bedřich Bozděch

butler Souček

Alois Dvorský

old security guard

Vladimír Dvořák

editor of the cultural section

Bohuš Hradil

senior official

Stanislav Fišer

assistant cameraman

Ota Motyčka

warehouseman

Fanda Mrázek

driver at the construction director

Bedřich Vrbský

editor in the publishing house

Josef Steigl

official Šálek

František Miška

official

Josef Příhoda

official

Antonín Kandert

official

Přemysl Kočí

customer in a bookstore

Eva Klepáčová

female customer in a bookstore

František Miroslav Doubrava

clerk in the publishing house

Martin Raus

editor on TV

Rudolf Pellar

editor

Jiří Sovák

Pošahal's friend Zoun

Arnošt Faltýnek

printer

Jiřina Bohdalová

scribe in the newsroom

Marie Rosůlková

secretary to the Minister

Antonín Šůra

resting worker on construction site

Václav Trégl

delegate to the Minister

Jaroslav Moučka

delegate to the Minister

Josef Chvalina

employee on a construction site

Marie Kautská

accountant on construction site

Miloš Willig

foreman on construction site

Vladimír Hrubý

worker on a cottage construction

Václav Švec

worker on a cottage construction

Lubomír Bryg

worker on a cottage construction

Blažena Slavíčková

office worker Bílá

Miloš Vavruška

driver on a construction site

Luděk Gradwohl

meeting participant

Jan Víšek

official

František Suk

Karel Třebický