Jan Hus

Overview

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

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