The happenings in a shoe factory serve as a not very thinly veiled examination of the pros and cons of both socialism and democracy.
Factory Boss
Josef Horák
Marie Dornáková
Manager Antonín
Lojza Andres
Jakub
Ort
Elsa
Sram
Lojzka Andresová
Horáková, Josk's mother
agitator Nikodým
agitator Pazdera
worker
laborer
personal clerk and master
Secretary Anna Vebrová
barber
employee informant
american guest
personnel officer
boss's wife
woman in society
gendarme
official
worker burning shoes
Baťa's young man
district governor
interpreters
peas
secret agent
bailiff
guard
doctor
Hans Hahn, director of the German branch
worker in a meeting
guest in a cafe
stoker
woman at the party
Fiegel
pianist
Upset Worker
officer
meeting participant
secretary of the young boss
boarding school educator
