Oil Lamps is a 1971 Czechoslovak drama film

Drama film

A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

 directed by Juraj Herz. It was entered into the 1972 Cannes Film Festival

1972 Cannes Film Festival

- Jury :*Joseph Losey *Bibi Andersson *Georges Auric *Erskine Caldwell *Mark Donskoi *Miloš Forman *Giorgio Papi *Jean Rochereau *Alain Tanner...

. It is based on a novel by Jaroslav Havlíček

Jaroslav Havlíček

Jaroslav Havlíček was a Czech novelist. He was an exponent of naturalism and psychological novel in Czech literature.- Life :...

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Plot

In small czech town named Jilemnice

Jilemnice

Jilemnice is a town in the Czech Republic.Belonged to the younger branch of counts Harrach.-Notable persons from Jilemnice:*Jan Weiss - Writer*Ales Vodsedalek - Nordic combined skier*Jakub Hlava - Ski jumper*Lukas Hlava - Ski jumper...

 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

General paresis of the insane

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, which in the coming years engulf his sanity.

Cast

• Iva Janžurová
  Iva Janžurová
  Iva Janžurová is a Czech actress. She attended grammar school in České Budějovice, but her love to theatre won after all and in 1963 she graduated from the Faculty of Theatre of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague...
  
   - Štěpa Kiliánová
• Petr Čepek
  Petr Cepek
  Petr Čepek was a Czech actor associated with The Drama Club in Prague. His final film was Faust, directed by Czech surrealist Jan Švankmajer.- Filmography :* 1961: Dva z onoho světa...
  
   - Pavel Malina
• Marie Rosůlková - Mother
• Ota Sklenčka
  Ota Sklenčka
  Ota Sklenčka was a Czech actor. He starred in the film Poslední propadne peklu under director Ludvík Ráža in 1982.-References:...
  
   - Father
• Vladimír Jedenáctík - Uncle
• Karel Černoch - Synáček
• Jaroslav Blažek - Trakl
• Václav Vondráček - Tabetic Machoň