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Pochodně

Pochodně

(1961)

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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  1. Director : Vladimír Čech
  2. Editor : Antonín Zelenka
  3. 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,Oldřich Velen,Rudolf Deyl,Alexandra Myšková,Radoslav Brzobohatý,Eman Fiala,Marie Brožová,Miloš Patočka,Jiřina Krejčová,Miriam Hynková,Oldřich Vykypěl,Ota Motyčka,Bohuš Záhorský,Miloš Nedbal,Miloš Vavruška,Martin Růžek,Vladimír Menšík,Václav Lohniský,Karel Effa,Vladimír Leraus,Otakar Brousek,Dagmar Zikánová,Karel Smyczek,Marie Nademlejnská,Otto Lackovič,Ljuba Hermanová,Vítězslav Černý,Bedřich Vrbský,Václav Švec,Josef Hlinomaz,Rudolf Pellar,Karel Dostal,Věra Langrová,Hana Davidová,Jana Břežková,Jaroslav Synák,Helga Čočková,Ladislav Gzela,Zuzana Fišárková,Karel Hovorka,Giorgos Skalenakis,Jiří Krampol

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Original TitlePochodně

Status Released

Release Information

  • 1961-03-10

Original LanguageUnknown

Production CompaniesFilmové studio Barrandov

Genres

  • Drama
  • History

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