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Content: 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...

Countries:

Czechoslovakia

Genres:

Drama,

History

Runtime:

0 minutes

Year:

1961

Directors:

Vladimír Čech

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Production companies:

Filmové studio Barrandov

Actors:

worker Josef Rezler

Anci Rozsypalová

factory Smolík

Otto - Smolík's son

Father Novotný

Crews:

Director of Photography

Editor

Production Design

Costume Design

Director