Shoesmachine

Shoesmachine

101 mins | Drama | Sept. 24, 1954

The happenings in a shoe factory serve as a not very thinly veiled examination of the pros and cons of both socialism and democracy.

Shoesmachine

101 mins | Drama | Sept. 24, 1954

Shoesmachine
The happenings in a shoe factory serve as a not very thinly veiled examination of the pros and cons of both socialism and democracy.
Producers Studio uměleckého filmu
Original title Botostroj
Directors Libuše Malá, Viktor Karásek, Jiří Mikeťuk, K. M. Walló
Writers T. Svatopluk, K. M. Walló, Otakar Vávra

Cast

Vítězslav Vejražka

as Factory Boss

Vilém Besser

as Josef Horák

Eva Kubešová

as Marie Dornáková

Zdeněk Řehoř

as Manager Antonín

Oldřich Vykypěl

as Lojza Andres

Petr Skála

as Jakub

Ota Sklenčka

as Ort

Marie Vášová

as Elsa

Božena Böhmová

as Lojzka Andresová

Jarmila Kurandová

as Horáková, Josk's mother

Oldřich Lukeš

as agitator Nikodým

J. O. Martin

as agitator Pazdera

Věra Benšová

as worker

Jan Skopeček

as laborer

Karel Houska

as personal clerk and master

Jaroslav Toť

as laborer

Vlasta Fialová

as Secretary Anna Vebrová

Gustav Hrdlička

as barber

Josef Chvalina

as employee informant

Rudolf Myzet

as american guest

Josef Maršálek

as personnel officer

Marie Pavlíková

as boss's wife

Věra Váchová

as woman in society

Zdeněk Šavrda

as gendarme

Zdeněk Jelínek

as official

Miloš Vavruška

as worker burning shoes

Oleg Reif

as Baťa's young man

František Šlégr

as district governor

Eva Marie Kavanová

as interpreters

Josef Kotapiš

as secret agent

Svatopluk Majer

as bailiff

Anna Pitašová

as woman in society

Zdeněk Hodr

as doctor

Ema Skálová

as worker

Otto Šimánek

as laborer

Štěpán Bulejko

as Hans Hahn, director of the German branch

Arnošt Faltýnek

as worker in a meeting

Jan Šmíd

as guest in a cafe

Rudolf Široký

as stoker

Libuše Zemková

as woman at the party

Miroslav Homola

as Fiegel

Emma Kovárnová

as pianist

Karel Hovorka

as Upset Worker

Karel Pavlík

as guard

Václav Švec

as officer

Jiří Němeček

as meeting participant

Dagmar Drašarová

as worker

Jiřina Bílá

as secretary of the young boss

Jaroslava Panenková

as boarding school educator