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The first part of the "Hussite Revolutionary Trilogy", completed with Jan Žižka (1955) and Proti všem (Against All Odds, 1957). The film captures the period from May 1412 to the summer of 1415, a turbulent time in the Czech Kingdom, during which there were protests in Prague against the sale of "omnipotent indulgences" whose sale throughout the kingdom was announced by Pope John XXIII. The ideological leader of this movement is the preacher Master Jan Hus, whose words, calling for the elimination of church abuses, are listened to in the Bethlehem Chapel by thousands of ordinary Praguers, Czech lords and Queen Sophie, wife of the Czech King Wenceslas IV.Read moreLess
The first part of the "Hussite Revolutionary Trilogy", completed with Jan Žižka (1955) and Proti všem (Against All Odds, 1957). The film captures the period from May 1412 to the summer of 1415, a turbulent time in the Czech Kingdom, during which there were protests in Prague against the sale of "omnipotent indulgences" whose sale throughout the kingdom was announced by Pope John XXIII. The ideological leader of this movement is the preacher Master Jan Hus, whose words, calling for the elimination of church abuses, are listened to in the Bethlehem Chapel by thousands of ordinary Praguers, Czech lords and Queen Sophie, wife of the Czech King Wenceslas IV.
The story
The first part of the "Hussite Revolutionary Trilogy", completed with Jan Žižka (1955) and Proti všem (Against All Odds, 1957). The film captures the period from May 1412 to the summer of 1415, a turbulent time in the Czech Kingdom, during which there were protests in Prague against the sale of "omnipotent indulgences" whose sale throughout the kingdom was announced by Pope John XXIII. The ideological leader of this movement is the preacher Master Jan Hus, whose words, calling for the elimination of church abuses, are listened to in the Bethlehem Chapel by thousands of ordinary Praguers, Czech lords and Queen Sophie, wife of the Czech King Wenceslas IV.
Cast & crew
Zdeněk ŠtěpánekJan Hus / Jan Žižka
Karel Högerkrál Václav IV.
Jan Piveccísař Zikmund
Vlasta Matulovákrálovna Žofie
Ladislav PešekMiserere - šašek
Gustav HilmarJan z Chlumu
Vítězslav VejražkaVáclav z Dubé
Václav VoskaČeněk z Vartenberku
Eduard KohoutJindřich Leftl z Lažan
Bedřich Karenkardinál Pierre d'Ailli
František Smolíkpapežský legát
Otomar KrejčaŠtěpán z PálceExplore the crew
- Screenplay
- Miloš Václav Kratochvíl
- Screenplay
- Otakar Vávra
- Original Music Composer
- Jiří Srnka
- Director
- Otakar Vávra
- Director of Photography
- Václav Hanuš
- Editor
- Antonín Zelenka