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Pochodně

Pochodně

1961•5.0/10
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5.0/10(1)

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...

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Production

Filmové studio Barrandov

Language

CS

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Eduard Cupák

Eduard Cupák

worker Josef Rezler

Zuzana Stivínová

Zuzana Stivínová

Anci Rozsypalová

Jaroslav Vojta

Jaroslav Vojta

factory Smolík

Luděk Munzar

Luděk Munzar

Otto - Smolík's son

Karel Höger

Karel Höger

Father Novotný

Zdeněk Braunschläger

editor Kolár

Vlastimil Hašek

Vlastimil Hašek

singer Hejkal

Václav Sloup

Václav Sloup

accordionist Shrovetide

Lubomír Kostelka

Lubomír Kostelka

singer Kulda

Vladimír Brabec

Vladimír Brabec

foreman Ladislav Zápotocký

Jan Tříska

Jan Tříska

foreman Josef Pecka

Jiří Kodet

Jiří Kodet

editor Norbert Zoula

Rudolf Jelínek

Rudolf Jelínek

editor Fait

Oldřich Lukeš

Oldřich Lukeš

worker Smejkál

Oldřich Velen

Oldřich Velen

worker Broz

Rudolf Deyl

Rudolf Deyl

Worker Hübner

Alexandra Myšková

delnice Pesková

Radoslav Brzobohatý

Radoslav Brzobohatý

worker Kovár

Eman Fiala

Eman Fiala

drunk Rezler

Marie Brožová

Marie Brožová

Rezlerová - Josef's mother

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