Plot
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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Cast
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
Vlastimil Hašek
singer Hejkal
Václav Sloup
accordionist Shrovetide
Lubomír Kostelka
singer Kulda
Vladimír Brabec
foreman Ladislav Zápotocký
Jan Tříska
foreman Josef Pecka
Jiří Kodet
editor Norbert Zoula
Rudolf Jelínek
editor Fait
Oldřich Lukeš
worker Smejkál
Oldřich Velen
worker Broz
Rudolf Deyl
Worker Hübner
Alexandra Myšková
delnice Pesková
Radoslav Brzobohatý
worker Kovár
Eman Fiala
drunk Rezler
Marie Brožová
Rezlerová - Josef's mother
Miloš Patočka
Young worker
Jiřina Krejčová
Younger worker
Miriam Hynková
Paulína
Oldřich Vykypěl
Police director
Ota Motyčka
Rozslapil
Bohuš Záhorský
Praseckár
Miloš Nedbal
factor Purchased
Miloš Vavruška
Martin Růžek
Pihovatý
Vladimír Menšík
Secret agent
Václav Lohniský
The warden in the match shop
Karel Effa
Warden in prison
Vladimír Leraus
Strak's secret council
Otakar Brousek
Angry gentleman
Dagmar Zikánová
Komorná
Karel Smyczek
Frantík
Marie Nademlejnská
worker
Otto Lackovič
worker
Ljuba Hermanová
Singer in cabaret
Vítězslav Černý
Hostinský
Bedřich Vrbský
Innkeeper
Václav Švec
waiter at Rozslapil
Josef Hlinomaz
Pianist in cabaret
Rudolf Pellar
Singer in cabaret
Karel Dostal
Manufacturer
Věra Langrová
Prostitute
Hana Davidová
Mána
Jana Břežková
Broz's daughter
Jaroslav Synák
Laborer
Helga Čočková
Rozálka
Ladislav Gzela
worker from Waldes
Zuzana Fišárková
worker
Karel Hovorka
Kamelot
Giorgos Skalenakis
dude in Vienna
Jiří Krampol
Mladík
