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Pochodně

First aired on Mar 10, 1961

Runtime: Not Available

50%

Genres: 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...

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Eduard Cupák | worker Josef Rezler
Zuzana Stivínová | Anci Rozsypalová
Jaroslav Vojta | factory Smolík
Luděk Munzar | Otto - Smolík's son
Karel Höger | Father Novotný
Zdeněk Braunschläger | editor Kolár
Featured Crew
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Vladimír Čech | Director
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Rudolf Stahl | Director of Photography
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Antonín Zelenka | Editor
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Bohuslav Kulič | Production Design
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Karel Postřehovský | Costume Design
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Čestmír Mlíkovský | First Assistant Director