| 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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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.