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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...Read moreLess
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...
The story
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...
Cast & crew
Eduard Cupákworker Josef Rezler
Zuzana StivínováAnci Rozsypalová
Jaroslav Vojtafactory Smolík
Luděk MunzarOtto - Smolík's son
Karel HögerFather Novotný
Vlastimil Hašeksinger Hejkal
Václav Sloupaccordionist Shrovetide
Lubomír Kostelkasinger Kulda
Vladimír Brabecforeman Ladislav Zápotocký
Jan Třískaforeman Josef Pecka
Jiří Kodeteditor Norbert ZoulaExplore the crew
- Director
- Vladimír Čech
- Director of Photography
- Rudolf Stahl
- Editor
- Antonín Zelenka
- Screenplay
- Vladimír Neff
- Original Music Composer
- Štěpán Lucký