This feature film based on the events of 1938 is a chronicle of the futile efforts of the Czechoslovak president Edvard Benes (Jirí Pleskot), politicians and ordinary citizens, to save the independence and the territorial integrity of the state from the advance of Hitler's Germany. On the 29th of March 1938 the leader of the Sudeten Germans Henlein (Werner Ehrlicher) has a meeting with Hitler (Gunnar Möller). Hitler orders him to intensify pressure on the Czechoslovak government. On the 24th of April in Carlsbad, the Sudetendeutsche Partei (Sudeten German Party) decides upon eight demands that are unacceptable to the Czechoslovak President, since they would ultimately lead to the break-up of the Republic. Benes still shows a certain willingness to negotiate, and Henlein resents this. The Germans are determined to make further negotiations impossible through incidents and violence.
演员: Gunnar Möller
/ Čestmír Řanda
/ Jaroslav Rozsíval
/ Jaromír Hanzlík
/ Renáta Doleželová
/ Ota Sklenčka
/ Michal Dočolomanský
/ Vladimír Hlavatý
/ Gerhard Rachold
/ Jan Schánilec
/ Josef Větrovec
/ Miloš Nedbal
/ Gustav Opočenský
/ Josef Somr
/ Jaroslav Satoranský
/ Raoul Schránil
/ Jan Teplý
/ Vladimír Ptáček
/ Štěpán Bulejko
/ Oldřich Velen
/ Bohumil Švarc
/ Bert Schneider
/ Otto Ohnesorg
/ Vladimír Navrátil
/ Josef Hrbek
/ Jan Prokeš
/ Vít Pešina
/ Václav Vondráček
/ Miloslav Novák
/ Vincenc Koblitz
/ Jan Janků
/ František Marek
/ Emil Hora
/ František Jákl
/ Ludvík Wolf
/ Jaroslav Tomsa
/ Zdeněk Srstka
/ Jiří Klenot
/ Miroslav Jíra
