Pochodně

Pochodně

1961
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Drama History
Overview

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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Language: CS

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Production Information

Production Companies
Filmové studio Barrandov
Production Countries
Czechoslovakia
Spoken Languages
Czech

Keywords

based on novel or book 19th century

Quick Facts

Release Date March 10, 1961
Status Released
Language CS
IMDb ID tt0232425

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
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

Key Crew

Vladimír Čech
Director
Bohumil Šmída
Executive Producer
Vladimír Neff
Screenplay