Night of Orange Fires

Night of Orange Fires

88 mins | Drama | March 7, 1975

Petr Rynes (Svatopluk Matyás) is celebrating his forty-fifth birthday in the company of his friends. He is happy with his wife, and his abilities at work have been rewarded with the medal For Outstanding Work. But a few short seconds are enough to change his life when he makes the ill-judged decision to take his car to bring a friend's wife to the celebration, and hits a pedestrian on the way. He has of course been drinking at the party and is consequently sentenced to sixteen months in prison. Being in jail is not an easy thing for a honorable communist. He soon gets into conflict with several violent inmates, who think they can break his spirit by violence.

Night of Orange Fires

88 mins | Drama | March 7, 1975

Night of Orange Fires
Petr Rynes (Svatopluk Matyás) is celebrating his forty-fifth birthday in the company of his friends. He is happy with his wife, and his abilities at work have been rewarded with the medal For Outstanding Work. But a few short seconds are enough to change his life when he makes the ill-judged decision to take his car to bring a friend's wife to the celebration, and hits a pedestrian on the way. He has of course been drinking at the party and is consequently sentenced to sixteen months in prison. Being in jail is not an easy thing for a honorable communist. He soon gets into conflict with several violent inmates, who think they can break his spirit by violence.
Producers Filmové studio Barrandov
Original title Noc oranžových ohňů
Directors Věra Justová, Zdena Pavlátová, Bohumil Koška, Zbyněk Brynych
Writers Miroslav Hladký, Ivan Gariš, Zbyněk Brynych

Cast

Miroslav Dvořák

as Musician

Otto Freiman

as Musician

Antonín Jeřicha

as Musician

Josef Kanč

as Musician

Bohuslav Kokrda

as Musician

Jaroslav Matějka

as Musician

František Přibyl

as Musician

Bohumil Stolařík

as Musician

Bedřich Štikar

as Musician

Antonín Vodehnal

as Musician

Alena Kreuzmannová

as Judge (voice)