Pochodně Poster

Pochodně

50.00% | March 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 Crew

Vladimír Čech
Director
Rudolf Stahl
Director of Photography
Antonín Zelenka
Editor
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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

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