Jan Hus (1954)

Directed by

Otakar Vávra

Genre

drama film, historical film

Country

Czechoslovakia

Runtime

2h 05m

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 10 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

The film tells the story of Jan Hus, a Czech priest and thinker who challenged the Catholic Church in the early 1400s. It follows his teachings and the conflict with church authorities that led to his trial and execution.

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What happens

Jan Hus is a 1954 Czechoslovak film about Jan Hus, an early Christian reformer. It is the first part of the "Hussite Revolutionary Trilogy", one of the most famous works of Otakar Vávra, completed with Jan Žižka (1955) and Against All (1956). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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