Pochodně
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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...
Status: Released
Released Date: 1961-03-10
Runtime: 0 mins
Director: Vladimír Čech
Spoken language: Český
Genres: Drama, History
Original title: Pochodně
Production Companies: Filmové studio Barrandov
Production Countries: Czechoslovakia
Cast
Eduard Cupák
Zuzana Stivínová
Jaroslav Vojta
Luděk Munzar
Karel Höger
Zdeněk Braunschläger
Vlastimil Hašek
Václav Sloup
Lubomír Kostelka
Vladimír Brabec
Jan Tříska
Jiří Kodet
Rudolf Jelínek
Oldřich Lukeš
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