After his return from prison, Toník Buráň joins the youth-movement railways-building. The camp's commander Horák is surprised that Toník didn't go back to his previous job. Toník starts telling him his story: After finishing school, he joined the Baťa plant where he first worked on building the railway to Vizovice. After an accident on the railway tracks, the communists invited the workers to call a strike. Pressured by his father, who also worked in Baťa, Toník gave away the place of the strike. His betrayal was revealed and his colleagues began to avoid him. The partisans also didn't trust him during the war. He went to prison after having a fight and badly injuring a friend from the railwayline. He wants to work on the railway to make up for his mistakes. After this explanation, Horák hires him. Toník soon becomes a shock-worker and proves himself also as a excavator operator. Toník begins suspecting his ex-fellow prisoner of evil intentions and then catches him trying to poison the drinking water. He prevents a great catastrophe and wins everybody's respect.
zámečník Tonda Buráň
sekretářka a brigádnice Lída Kolářová
tiskař Zdeněk Kružný
vězeň a brigádník Vlastimil Zubatík
velitel tábora Mirek Horák
bratr Bartoš, ředitel u Bati
vězeň a rolník Ocílka
vězeň Čestmír Macháň/vinárník, Čestmírův bratr
otec Buráň
Voice by Hermína Vojtová
matka Buráňová
děda Buráň
vrchní dozorce
prokurátor
hospodář stavby Standa
dělník František Mokroš
dělník Jan Opavský
zákaznice v textilu
právník
soudce
bagrista Votýpka
dělník Milan Hoša
vězeň a důstojník SS Walter Taler
dozorce
brigádník
kulturní referentka Blanka
obchodník s textilem Vincenc Macek
inženýr
vězeň, bývalý gardista
důstojník SS
sedlák Opíchal
komerční rada
sekretář u ředitele
účetní
dělník na stavbě
farář
Zdeněk
tanečník
dělník u Bati
brigádnice Marta, lékařka
zedník
vedoucí polských brigádníků
brigádnice
brigádnice
personální l u Bati
V. Kolár, J. Jech
Song Composer Miroslav Barvík
Writer of Lyrics K. M. Walló
Singer sbor
Singer sbor
Singer sbor
Singer sbor
Singer sbor
Singer sbor
Veliká příležitost
Veliká příležitost
The Great Opportunity
film
featuretheatrical distribution
drama, socialist-realism
Czechoslovakia
1949
1949
date of censorship 28 February 1950 (konec povolení k promítání 28. 2. 1955)
withdrawal from distribution 23 August 1960
premiere 14 April 1950 /suitable for youths/ (kina Blaník /3 týdny/ a Světozor /3 týdny/, Praha)
IV. tvůrčí kolektiv Miroslava Galušky, Miroslav Galuška (vedoucí IV. tvůrčího kolektivu)
feature film
89 min
2 543 meters
16mm, 35mm
1:1,37
black & white
sound
mono
Czech
Czech
without subtitles
Czech