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.
as Jan Hus / Jan Žižka
as král Václav IV.
as císař Zikmund
as královna Žofie
as Miserere - šašek
as Jan z Chlumu
as Václav z Dubé
as Čeněk z Vartenberku
as Jindřich Leftl z Lažan
as kardinál Pierre d'Ailli
as papežský legát
as Štěpán z Pálce
as farař Jan řečený Peklo
as papežský komisař Tiem
as Johanka
as Martin
as Stašek
as Jan
as Staškova matka
as tesař Jíra
as krejčí
as švec
as Mistr Stanislav ze Znojma
as Jakoubek ze Stříbra
as Ješek
as Prokupek
as pražský purkmistr
as konšel Štumpfnágel
as Štumpfnágelova žena
as purkmistrův syn
as vdova Fída v Kostnici
as kaplan v Horní Falci
as purkmistr Podivínský
as Německý Kurfiřt
as venkovský stařík
as komoří
as biskupský kancléř
as stařenka na faře
as purkmistr Kostnice
as šlechtic
as sedlák Hans
as německý venkovan
as německý venkovan
as žena Jíry
as mladík v Týnu
as žena Štefana
as kardinál
as žoldnéř v kostele
as pražský konšel
as Rustic Priest
as Alderman
as Alderman
as Alderman
as pražský kat
as venkovan
as Innkeeper
as Popish Messenger
as Simon
as Penman
as waitress in the backyard at the wedding
as artist's summoner
as construction master / Tiem 's guardian
as Old Town Council Hanfstaengl
as old countryman with a beard
as young countryman
as maid of honor
as Prague citizen
as burgher
as burgher
