Pochodně

Pochodně

50% | Mar 10, 1961 | Drama, History

Prague in the 1870s. Work in Smolík's sulphur factory is hard and dangerous to health. The poorly paid workers resemble torches because their clothes are soaked with poisonous phosphorus. Young Josef Rezler also works in the sulphur factory and uses his earnings to feed his mother and little sisters. He throws his perpetually drunken father out of the house. The older worker Brož forces Josef to learn to read and write. A cholera epidemic breaks out in Prague and Josef is the only one of his family to survive the disease...

Featured Cast

Rudolf Stahl
Director of Photography
Antonín Zelenka
Editor

Cast

worker Josef Rezler
Eduard Cupák
worker Josef Rezler
Anci Rozsypalová
Zuzana Stivínová
Anci Rozsypalová
factory Smolík
Jaroslav Vojta
factory Smolík
Otto - Smolík's son
Luděk Munzar
Otto - Smolík's son
Father Novotný
Karel Höger
Father Novotný

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