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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.
- Director
- Otakar Vávra
- Writers
- Miloš Václav Kratochvíl, Alois Jirásek, Otakar Vávra
- Language
- Czech
- Country
- Czechoslovakia
- Release date
- 29 April 1955
Ensemble
Cast

Zdeněk Štěpánek
Jan Hus / Jan Žižka

Karel Höger
král Václav IV.

Jan Pivec
císař Zikmund

Vlasta Matulová
královna Žofie

Ladislav Pešek
Miserere - šašek

Gustav Hilmar
Jan z Chlumu

Vítězslav Vejražka
Václav z Dubé

Václav Voska
Čeněk z Vartenberku

Eduard Kohout
Jindřich Leftl z Lažan

Bedřich Karen
kardinál Pierre d'Ailli

František Smolík
papežský legát

Otomar Krejča
Štěpán z Pálce
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