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