The Iron Heel

A dramatisation of London's utopian novel. The novel is a classic work of American utopian literature that inspired George Orwell when writing his "1984". "The Iron Heel" captures, in the form of notes written by the wife of an American revolutionary and imaginatively published around the year 2600, a picture of the social upheavals in the USA at the beginning of the 20th century. Cast and characters: prologue (Milan Mach), manuscript guide (Luděk Munzar), Avis Everhard (Karolina Slunéčková), Ernest Everhard (Vladimír Brabec), Professor Cunningham, Avis's father (Miloš Nedbal), Bishop Morehouse (Zdeněk Martínek), Dr. Hammerfield, a clergyman (Bedřich Prokoš), Wickson, a financial magnate (Karel Höger), Calvin, a merchant (Bohumil Bezouška), Kowalt, a merchant (Miloš Willig), Asmunsen, a merchant (Zdeněk Kutil), Connor, chairman of the engineering workers' union (Josef Patočka), Garthwaite, a revolutionary (Karel Urbánek), Hartman, a revolutionary (Karel Hlušička), Carlson, manager of Wickson's stables (Jiří Mikota), Anna Roylston (Jana Štěpánková), Kate Pierce (Růžena Merunková), Lora Peterson (Jana Andresíková), Doctor Parkhurst (Ladislav Boháč), directed by Jiří Horčička. Recorded in 1976.