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Jan Hus

Jan Hus

19552h 5m
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Released

Release

1955

Runtime

2h 5m

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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.

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Status
Released
Runtime
2h 5m
Apr 29, 1955
Languages
Czech
Director
Otakar Vávra
Otakar Vávra
Production
Studio uměleckého filmu Praha
Studio uměleckého filmu Praha
Production Countries
Czechoslovakia
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The Hussite Revolutionary Trilogy

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