Plechová kavalérie

Plechová kavalérie
Genre	Drama
Created by	Jaroslav Dietl
Screenplay by	Jaroslav Dietl
Directed by	Jaroslav Dudek
Starring	Vlastimil Hašek Jan Hartl Vladimír Menšík Jaromír Hanzlík Jan Hrušínský Jaroslav Moučka Václav Sloup Jiří Samek Lenka Kořínková Libuše Geprtová Vladimír Hlavatý Marie Motlová František Filipovský
Composer	Zdeněk Marat
Country of origin	Czechoslovakia
Original languages	Czech Slovak
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	7
Production
Camera setup	Jindřich Novotný
Running time	45 min
Original release
Network	Czechoslovak Television
Release	1 December (1979-12-01) – 25 December 1979 (1979-12-25)

Plechová kavalérie (English: "Steel Cavalry") is a Czechoslovak television series about combine operators, created by Jaroslav Dietl and directed by Jaroslav Dudek.

Background

Before 1989, many farms in Czechoslovakia did not have enough combine harvesters for the harvest season. They borrowed them from STS (Strojní a Traktorová Stanice), the "Machine and Tractor Station". A route was planned, and the groups of combine harvesters started in the east and harvested farms on the way home. This is the story of one of those groups, from Nepomuk in the Plzeň Region.

Cast and characters

• Jan Hartl as Vít Kubánek
• Jaroslav Moučka as Kahovec
• Vladimír Menšík as Holeček
• Jaromír Hanzlík as Vilda Muclinger
• Vlastimil Hašek as Pravoslav Žížka
• Lenka Kořínková as Zuzana Šímová
• Jan Hrušínský as Ludvík Kupec
• Jiří Samek as Bohouš Straka
• Václav Sloup as Jindra Kužela
• Libuše Geprtová as Lída
• Vladimír Hlavatý as Knížek
• Marie Motlová as Knížková
• František Filipovský as Litera

External links

• Plechová kavalérie at IMDb
• Plechová kavalérie at ČSFD