
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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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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