Oil Lamps (film)

Oil Lamps (film)
Oil Lamps
Directed by Juraj Herz
Written by Meir Dohnal
Jaroslav Havlíček
Juraj Herz
Václav Šašek
Starring Iva Janžurová, Petr Čepek
Cinematography Dodo Simoncic
Editing by Jaromír Janáček
Release date(s) 5 November, 1971
Running time 101 minutes
Country Czechoslovakia
Language Czech

Oil Lamps (Czech: Petrolejové lampy) is a 1971 Czechoslovak drama film directed by Juraj Herz. It was entered into the 1972 Cannes Film Festival.[1] It is based on a novel by Jaroslav Havlíček.

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Plot

In small czech town named Jilemnice live unfortunate, but brave and jovial woman Štěpa Kiliánová, whose only desire was to fill the void in her virgin life. In despair and excessive trust, she married a sardonic, reclusive man, former lieutenant and gambler Pavel Malina, whose only wish was finally found peace and forgetting the past. They lived through unrequited love, dislike and disappointment. But no one knew that her groom begin to show signs of cerebral disease, which in the coming years engulf his sanity.

Cast

  • Iva Janžurová - Štěpa Kiliánová
  • Petr Čepek - Pavel Malina
  • Marie Rosůlková - Mother
  • Ota Sklenčka - Father
  • Vladimír Jedenáctík - Uncle
  • Karel Černoch - Synáček
  • Jaroslav Blažek - Trakl
  • Václav Vondráček - Tabetic Machoň

References

  1. ^ "Festival de Cannes: Oil Lamps". festival-cannes.com. http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/2366/year/1972.html. Retrieved 2009-04-14. 

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