Lucie

Directed by Karel Steklý

With Josef Větrovec, Karel Höger, Vladimír Šmeral, Ladislav Boháč and Míla Myslíková

The leader of the fast-track workers' party is appointed worker director of the unprofitable Lucie mine. The wrong decisions he makes to increase production at any cost and to fulfil an unrealistic plan lead to a catastrophe in which his son is accidentally killed. After overwhelming criticism, the failed director wants to quit, but the senior management and party authorities continue to have faith in him...