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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...
March 10, 1961
Filmové studio Barrandov
55 people
Eduard Cupák
worker Josef Rezler
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Zuzana Stivínová
Anci Rozsypalová
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Jaroslav Vojta
factory Smolík
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Luděk Munzar
Otto - Smolík's son
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Karel Höger
Father Novotný
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Zdeněk Braunschläger
editor Kolár
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Vlastimil Hašek
singer Hejkal
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Václav Sloup
accordionist Shrovetide
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Lubomír Kostelka
singer Kulda
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Vladimír Brabec
foreman Ladislav Zápotocký
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Jan Tříska
foreman Josef Pecka
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Jiří Kodet
editor Norbert Zoula
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