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A TV adaptation of the famous novel in which writer Zikmund Winter depicts the life story of Prague university professor and humanist poet Jan Campanus Vodňanský and his efforts to save the ancient university after the Battle of White Mountain. Campanus gradually loses all his battles. The path of concessions leads to unintentional but tragic guilt when, at Campanus's unwitting instigation, the Jesuits seize the child of the executed Jesenius. The difficult post-White Mountain period in the Czech lands presented Campanus with a dilemma: whether to convert or to keep a clear conscience, a conflict of power and honor so common in our history...Read moreLess
A TV adaptation of the famous novel in which writer Zikmund Winter depicts the life story of Prague university professor and humanist poet Jan Campanus Vodňanský and his efforts to save the ancient university after the Battle of White Mountain. Campanus gradually loses all his battles. The path of concessions leads to unintentional but tragic guilt when, at Campanus's unwitting instigation, the Jesuits seize the child of the executed Jesenius. The difficult post-White Mountain period in the Czech lands presented Campanus with a dilemma: whether to convert or to keep a clear conscience, a conflict of power and honor so common in our history...
The story
A TV adaptation of the famous novel in which writer Zikmund Winter depicts the life story of Prague university professor and humanist poet Jan Campanus Vodňanský and his efforts to save the ancient university after the Battle of White Mountain. Campanus gradually loses all his battles. The path of concessions leads to unintentional but tragic guilt when, at Campanus's unwitting instigation, the Jesuits seize the child of the executed Jesenius. The difficult post-White Mountain period in the Czech lands presented Campanus with a dilemma: whether to convert or to keep a clear conscience, a conflict of power and honor so common in our history...
Cast & crew
Václav Postránecký
Miroslav DonutilCast
František NěmecCast
Ondřej VetchýCast
Václav VydraCast
Oldřich VíznerCast
Jan KrausCast
Karel HlušičkaCast
Lenka SkopalováCast
Eva JakoubkováCast
Rudolf HrušínskýCast
Josef KemrCastExplore the crew
- Director
- Zdenek Sirový
- Writer
- Věra Kalábová
- Writer
- Ondřej Vogeltanz
- Original Music Composer
- Luboš Fišer
- Editor
- Jana Malásková
- Editor
- Marie Maršálková
- Editor
- Mirko Veselý
- Director of Photography
- Jiří Kadaňka