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