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Pochodně (1961)

Pochodně (1961)

Drama History
Release Date: 1961, March 10
Directors: Vladimír Čech
Countries: Czechoslovakia
Production: Filmové studio Barrandov
Cast: Karel Effa, Zuzana Stivínová, Jan Tříska, Rudolf Pellar, Jiří Krampol, Otakar Brousek, Radoslav Brzobohatý, Luděk Munzar, Vladimír Brabec, Lubomír Kostelka, Martin Růžek, Václav Sloup

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...

Keywords:

based on novel or book 19th century