
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...

as worker Josef Rezler

as Anci Rozsypalová

as factory Smolík

as Otto - Smolík's son

as Father Novotný

as editor Kolár

as singer Hejkal

as accordionist Shrovetide

as singer Kulda

as foreman Ladislav Zápotocký

as foreman Josef Pecka

as editor Norbert Zoula

as editor Fait

as worker Smejkál

as worker Broz

as Worker Hübner

as delnice Pesková

as worker Kovár

as drunk Rezler

as Rezlerová - Josef's mother

as Young worker

as Younger worker

as Paulína

as Police director

as Rozslapil

as Praseckár

as factor Purchased


as Pihovatý

as Secret agent

as The warden in the match shop

as Warden in prison

as Strak's secret council

as Angry gentleman

as Komorná

as Frantík

as worker

as worker

as Singer in cabaret

as Hostinský

as Innkeeper

as waiter at Rozslapil

as Pianist in cabaret

as Singer in cabaret

as Manufacturer

as Prostitute

as Mána

as Broz's daughter

as Laborer

as Rozálka

as worker from Waldes

as worker

as Kamelot

as dude in Vienna

as Mladík