Pochodně (1961)
Synopsis
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...
Release Date: 1961-03-10
Director: Vladimír Čech
Top Cast
- Eduard Cupák as worker Josef Rezler
- Zuzana Stivínová as Anci Rozsypalová
- Jaroslav Vojta as factory Smolík
- Luděk Munzar as Otto - Smolík's son
- Karel Höger as Father Novotný
- Zdeněk Braunschläger as editor Kolár
- Vlastimil Hašek as singer Hejkal
- Václav Sloup as accordionist Shrovetide
- Lubomír Kostelka as singer Kulda
- Vladimír Brabec as foreman Ladislav Zápotocký
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