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Pochodně
1961, Mar 10
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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...
Directed by
Vladimír Čech
Martin Růžek
Pihovatý
Oldřich Vykypěl
Police director
Karel Höger
Father Novotný
Lubomír Kostelka
singer Kulda
Václav Lohniský
The warden in the match shop
Karel Dostal
Manufacturer
Eman Fiala
drunk Rezler
Josef Hlinomaz
Pianist in cabaret
Karel Effa
Warden in prison
Václav Sloup
accordionist Shrovetide
Vladimír Menšík
Secret agent
Rudolf Deyl
Worker Hübner
Rudolf Pellar
Singer in cabaret
Jan Tříska
foreman Josef Pecka
Bedřich Vrbský
Innkeeper
Luděk Munzar
Otto - Smolík's son
Vladimír Brabec
foreman Ladislav Zápotocký
Marie Brožová
Rezlerová - Josef's mother
Ota Motyčka
Rozslapil
Jaroslav Vojta
factory Smolík
Miloš Nedbal
factor Purchased
Vladimír Leraus
Strak's secret council
Jiří Kodet
editor Norbert Zoula
Miriam Hynková
Paulína
Helga Čočková
Rozálka
Ljuba Hermanová
Singer in cabaret
Oldřich Velen
worker Broz
Oldřich Lukeš
worker Smejkál
Marie Nademlejnská
worker
Eduard Cupák
worker Josef Rezler
Otakar Brousek
Angry gentleman
Vlastimil Hašek
singer Hejkal
Radoslav Brzobohatý
worker Kovár
Jiří Krampol
Mladík
Otto Lackovič
worker
Rudolf Jelínek
editor Fait
Zuzana Fišárková
worker
Bohuš Záhorský
Praseckár
Jana Břežková
Broz's daughter
Zuzana Stivínová
Anci Rozsypalová
Miloš Vavruška
Zdeněk Braunschläger
editor Kolár
Alexandra Myšková
delnice Pesková
Miloš Patočka
Young worker
Jiřina Krejčová
Younger worker
Dagmar Zikánová
Komorná
Vítězslav Černý
Hostinský
Václav Švec
waiter at Rozslapil
Věra Langrová
Prostitute
Hana Davidová
Mána
Jaroslav Synák
Laborer
Ladislav Gzela
worker from Waldes
Karel Hovorka
Kamelot
Slávka Doležalová-Kulhavá
Miloslav Lipinský
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