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Oil Lamps
Oil Lamps
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OIL LAMPS

Petrolejové lampy

Directed by Juraj Herz
Czechoslovakia, 1971
Drama

Synopsis

Set in a small Czech town in the 1890s, in telling detail, the film shows us the deteriorating community and private life of Stepa (Iva Janzurova), who has syphilis, an incurable, terminal disease.

Synopsis

Set in a small Czech town in the 1890s, in telling detail, the film shows us the deteriorating community and private life of Stepa (Iva Janzurova), who has syphilis, an incurable, terminal disease.