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Sequel of:

Jan Hus

Sequel:

All Our Enemies (Against All)

Original title

Jan Zizka

Year

1957

Running time

105 min.

Country

Czechoslovakia

Director

Otakar Vávra

Screenwriter

Story: Milos Václav Kratochvíl, Otakar Vávra

Cast

Music

Jirí Srnka

Cinematography

Václav Hanus

Producer

Studio Umeleckych Filmu Praha

Genre

Drama. War | Sequel. Historical. 14th Century. Middle Ages

Synopsis

Second film from Vavra's hussite trilogy (first is here).

1419: The atmosphere in Prague after Hus' death is very tense. Several rebels are prisoned and radical priest Jan Zelivský leads large masses of people to the Old Town's council house occupied by corrupt councillors, where the prisoners are kept. The councillors refuse demands lodged by Zelivský and several people are killed by stones thrown from windows. This act provokes ennoyance and leads to an overt uprising: the gate of the council house is broken and the councillors are thrown out of windows and killed (the so-called first Prague defenestration). When the king hears about this event, he is enormously upset and dies of heart failure. In the night the queen with courtiers leaves the city. The hussite revolution begins and the rebels elect Jan Zizka as their leader.

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Jan Zizka

1957

Otakar Vávra