The Village Revolt

The quiet life of the people from the village Čiré is upset by their visit to an agricultural exhibition in Prague. While the men like the tractor plow, the women are enamoured with the washing machine. However, the money in the communal safe is not enough for both. At least, the men ploughed with horses, while the women washed all the laundry by hand. There are big arguments in many of the families. Because only men are members in the local National Committee, the final decision is to buy the tractor. They are helped in their decision by the cunning farmer Harazim, who rents the pasture by the river which should become the wash-house. Harazim even tries to buy that land, together with an old shed that is there. A member of the National Committee, Mráček, doesn't make it to the wedding of his own daughter Ančka and Tonda Veselý because of all the meetings and fights. The angry women decide to call a strike. They leave the men to care for the children and do the housework while they all move to the widow Lencová's. The men soon stop swaggering after they realize how hard house work is. When they find secret supplies underneath Harazim's shed, the men stand no chance any more and the women will have the wash-house in Čiré. But before that the men will have to do the last washing by hand.