Dan, Freddy and Carda are roaming about Prague thinking of how to get some money. They decide to break into the box-office of a cinema, but a passer-by interferes. Freddy loses his jacket in the fight, but all three young men escape at the end. Freddy is afraid to return home and is hiding at the docks. The police identify him from his papers, which they found in the jacket. At the docks Freddy meets the customs officer Tonka and stirs her to pity with a made-up story about a bullying father. The news about the death of the man with whom he had a fight, confirms Freddy in his belief that he has to keep on hiding. The police are looking for Freddy in the factory in which the three young men work. Carda wants to confess. Dan gets him drunk and challenges him to a motor race. Carda's motorbike crashes and he dies in the accident. Dan decides to get Freddy across the border with the help of his father. Tonka visits Freddy's father, discovers the truth and persuades Freddy to surrender to the police. Freddy refuses Dan's help and there is a fight. Freddy escapes and is going to surrender to the police. Dan's father sees the only possibility being to save his son by sending him across the border instead of Freddy.
František Pastyřík zvaný Fredy
Dan Čihák
celní úřednice Tonka
Karel Kučera zvaný Carda
Tončin strýc
hodinář Pastyřík, Františkův otec
Josef Kučera, Karlův otec
Čihák, Danův otec
řidič Josef
Kučerová, Karlova matka
Čiháková, Danova matka
strojník Bedřich z lodi Orel
blonďatý motocyklista
pokladní kina Blaník
opozdilý návštěvník
jeřábník Toník
Jiřinka
příslušník SNB
zlepšovatel
kamarád
dělník
fotograf
staršina
Danova milenka
Ivan Roch, Zdena Štekrová
Vladimír Huja, Josef Pavlík
Adolf Böhm, Bohumír Brunclík (zvukové efekty)
František Štěpánek
František Belfín (FISYO), Karel Krautgartner (Orchestr Karla Krautgartnera)
Dálka zpívá, den je krátký
Josef Zíma (Dálka zpívá, den je krátký), Jiří Vašíček (Dálka zpívá, den je krátký), sbor (Dálka zpívá, den je krátký)
Cesta zpátky
The Road Back
film
feature
drama
Czechoslovakia
1958
1958
17 April 1959
Šmída – Kunc, František Břetislav Kunc, Bohumil Šmída
long
89 min
Czech