
29/04/1955
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.

Zdeněk Štěpánek
as Jan Hus / Jan Žižka

Karel Höger
as král Václav IV.

Jan Pivec
as císař Zikmund

Vlasta Matulová
as královna Žofie

Ladislav Pešek
as Miserere - šašek

Gustav Hilmar
as Jan z Chlumu

Vítězslav Vejražka
as Václav z Dubé

Václav Voska
as Čeněk z Vartenberku

Eduard Kohout
as Jindřich Leftl z Lažan

Bedřich Karen
as kardinál Pierre d'Ailli

František Smolík
as papežský legát

Otomar Krejča
as Štěpán z Pálce

Vladimír Řepa
as farař Jan řečený Peklo

František Kreuzmann
as papežský komisař Tiem

Marie Tomášová
as Johanka

Josef Mixa
as Martin

Eduard Cupák
as Stašek

Antonín Šůra
as Jan

Marie Brožová
as Staškova matka

Vilém Besser
as tesař Jíra

Vladimír Hlavatý
as krejčí

Bohuš Hradil
as švec

Rudolf Deyl
as Mistr Stanislav ze Znojma

Ladislav Boháč
as Jakoubek ze Stříbra

Josef Kemr
as Ješek

Jaroslav Mareš
as Prokupek

Vladimír Leraus
as pražský purkmistr

Bohuš Záhorský
as konšel Štumpfnágel

Marie Nademlejnská
as Štumpfnágelova žena

Rudolf Hrušínský
as purkmistrův syn

Světla Amortová
as vdova Fída v Kostnici

Radovan Lukavský
as kaplan v Horní Falci

Miloš Nedbal
as purkmistr Podivínský

Václav Vydra
as Německý Kurfiřt

František Kovářík
as venkovský stařík

Jiří Steimar
as komoří

Miloš Kopecký
as biskupský kancléř

Marie Svobodová
as stařenka na faře

Felix le Breux
as purkmistr Kostnice

Miroslav Doležal
as šlechtic

J. O. Martin
as sedlák Hans

Václav Švec
as německý venkovan

Hynek Němec
as německý venkovan

Miroslav Šipovič
as

Eva Strupplová
as žena Jíry

Vlastimil Brodský
as mladík v Týnu

Libuše Pešková
as žena Štefana

Stanislav Langer
as kardinál

Štěpán Bulejko
as žoldnéř v kostele

Richard Záhorský
as pražský konšel

Vojta Plachý-Tůma
as Rustic Priest

František Roland
as Alderman

František Marek
as Alderman

Vojta Novák
as Alderman

Oldřich Vykypěl
as pražský kat

Karel Jelínek
as venkovan

František Klika
as Innkeeper

Gustav Opočenský
as Popish Messenger

Jiří Hurta
as

Jaroslav Orlický
as Simon

Viktor Očásek
as Penman

Jarmila Krulišová
as waitress in the backyard at the wedding

Hermína Vojtová
as artist's summoner

Karel Pavlík
as construction master / Tiem 's guardian

Jaroslav Seník
as Old Town Council Hanfstaengl

Adolf Vojta-Jurný
as old countryman with a beard

Adolf Král
as young countryman

Libuše Zemková
as maid of honor

Josef Bartůněk
as Prague citizen

Marta Májová
as burgher

Anita Janová
as burgher
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