Quails and King (1974)
Overview
Police find a girl with a bleeding face in a small town park at night. First the girl, a textile factory worker Jana, refuses to talk, and then she decides to tell the truth. After her father's death she, by herself, takes care of her younger brother called Pinda. She does not like the influence that a gang of older boys from the factory exercise over her brother. The gang leader Jirka, called King, is admire by local girls whose number exceeds boys in the town because there are many textile factories where only girls are working. They easily yield to him and then he easily gets rid of them. Jana is a hard nut for him. She refuses his purposeful courtesy and thus she unintentionally gets his attention. King inspires the gang on how to get money by stealing textile from the factory warehouse.
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Additional Info
| Budget | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Revenue | $0.00 |
| Original Language | cs |
| Popularity | 0.18 |
Directed By
Jaromír Borek
Crew
Jaromír Borek
Zdeněk Touš
Marcela Pittermannová
Irena Greifová
Ota Hofman
Jiří Mikeťuk
Marie Hrdličková
Milan Novotný
Štěpán Koníček
Karel Štorkán
Kamil Kadeřábek
Eva Martincová
Karel Štorkán
Josef Lojík
Václav Havlík
Ondřej Friedl
Jaroslav Smola
Milan Nejedlý
Jan Hodný
Eva Truchlá
Vladimír Souček
Eduard Krečmar
Jaromír Borek
Karel Hurský
Jaroslav Chytrý
Angelo Michajlov
Jitka Frimlová
Karel Kočí
J. Zeithamlová
Ladislav Novotný
Miroslav Hájek
Daniela Pilařová
Jan Vild
Emil Sirotek
TOP CAST
Milena Steinmasslová
Jana
Erik Tabery
Král
Vladimír Dlouhý
Pinďa
Jan Kraus
Vabi
Steve Lichtag
Motejlek
Jaroslav Pešice
Pacovský
Michal Pavlata
příslušník VB
Josef Abrhám
Pacovský (voice)
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