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

Marie Nademlejnská

clerk miss Vinklářová

Stella Zázvorková

Pošahalová

Robert Vrchota

cameraman

Josef Hlinomaz

recruitment officer

Eduard Dubský

clerk Pulkrábek

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

Eva Klepáčová

female customer in a bookstore

Rudolf Pellar

editor

Jiří Sovák

Pošahal's friend Zoun

Jiřina Bohdalová

scribe in the newsroom

Marie Rosůlková

secretary to the Minister

Václav Trégl

delegate to the Minister

Jaroslav Moučka

delegate to the Minister

Marie Kautská

accountant on construction site

Vladimír Hrubý

worker on a cottage construction

Miloš Vavruška

driver on a construction site