Pochodně
Pochodně
Release: 1961-03-10
·★ 5.0
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...
Production Countries
Czechoslovakia
Production Companies
Filmové studio Barrandov
Cast
Vladimír Leraus
as Strak's secret council
Josef Hlinomaz
as Pianist in cabaret
Ota Motyčka
as Rozslapil
Oldřich Velen
as worker Broz
Miriam Hynková
as Paulína
Karel Smyczek
as Frantík
Jana Břežková
as Broz's daughter
Lubomír Kostelka
as singer Kulda
Jan Tříska
as foreman Josef Pecka
Oldřich Lukeš
as worker Smejkál
Radoslav Brzobohatý
as worker Kovár
Miloš Vavruška
Vladimír Menšík
as Secret agent
Václav Lohniský
as The warden in the match shop
Otakar Brousek
as Angry gentleman
Eduard Cupák
as worker Josef Rezler
Jiří Kodet
as editor Norbert Zoula
Miloš Nedbal
as factor Purchased
Rudolf Pellar
as Singer in cabaret
Zuzana Fišárková
as worker
Jiří Krampol
as Mladík
Luděk Munzar
as Otto - Smolík's son
Rudolf Deyl
as Worker Hübner
Eman Fiala
as drunk Rezler
Bedřich Vrbský
as Innkeeper
Bohuš Záhorský
as Praseckár
Zuzana Stivínová
as Anci Rozsypalová
Jaroslav Vojta
as factory Smolík
Karel Höger
as Father Novotný
Václav Sloup
as accordionist Shrovetide
Vlastimil Hašek
as singer Hejkal
Marie Brožová
as Rezlerová - Josef's mother
Oldřich Vykypěl
as Police director
Karel Effa
as Warden in prison
Marie Nademlejnská
as worker
Otto Lackovič
as worker
Ljuba Hermanová
as Singer in cabaret
Karel Dostal
as Manufacturer
Vladimír Brabec
as foreman Ladislav Zápotocký
Rudolf Jelínek
as editor Fait
Helga Čočková
as Rozálka
Giorgos Skalenakis
as dude in Vienna
Martin Růžek
as Pihovatý
