Film

Pochodně

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...

Eduard Cupák

worker Josef Rezler

Zuzana Stivínová

Anci Rozsypalová

Jaroslav Vojta

factory Smolík

Luděk Munzar

Otto - Smolík's son

Karel Höger

Father Novotný

Zdeněk Braunschläger

editor Kolár

Vlastimil Hašek

singer Hejkal

Václav Sloup

accordionist Shrovetide

Lubomír Kostelka

singer Kulda

Vladimír Brabec

foreman Ladislav Zápotocký

Jan Tříska

foreman Josef Pecka

Jiří Kodet

editor Norbert Zoula

Rudolf Jelínek

editor Fait

Oldřich Lukeš

worker Smejkál

Oldřich Velen

worker Broz

Rudolf Deyl

Worker Hübner

• Vladimír ČechDirector
• Vladimír NeffNovel · Screenplay
• Bohumil ŠmídaExecutive Producer
• Rudolf StahlDirector of Photography
• Štěpán LuckýOriginal Music Composer
• Antonín ZelenkaEditor

Release date

March 10, 1961

Status

Released

Original language

Czech

Genres

Drama, History

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