A bit of color for once, all the better to see the red flags with, not to mention the obvious aerial file footage of Warsaw. The story concerns Jozef Malesa, the mason or bricklayer of the title. He was once the darling of the party, the son of two old party activists, a worker of heroic reputation, his own commitment to The Movement unquestioned. He was chosen to be destined for great things, specially educated and pushed forward to positions of responsibility in the Party. Eventually he decides, because of the ethical pressures which he feels from the obstructionism of the bureaucracy from above, he asks to return to be a simple bricklayer. He is disturbed with the way the Party deals with people, especially their lack of direct contact. He thinks workers know better than the leadership many times but that's not the way power flows. He is uncomfortable with the compromises to his idealism. He remains committed to social justice and joins his friends for the May Day rally where his comfort and confidence in his place in society cause him to defer to no man, certainly no rat faced men in overcoats with red armbands. His great pleasure in life moreover is laying brick. He finds the work satisfying and fulfilling which is why he was such an obviously superior worker in the first place.
沃伊捷赫·福多兹芝基,Ondrej Stupka,塔蒂阿娜·保霍福娃,Stanislav Majer,沃依特赫·科特克,玛丽卡·索波斯卡,佩德罗·林涅尼奇卡,马丁·霍夫曼,Petr Halícek,马提亚斯·热兹尼切克,Jacob Erftemeijer,扬·奈德巴尔,托马斯·马斯塔利,伊戈尔·巴雷斯,Michaela Majerníková,Jevgenij Libeznuk,扬·诺沃特尼,Tomás Weber,丹尼尔·图马,Kupcová Marie Anna