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Jan Hus (1954)

Jan Hus poster
Directed by
Otakar Vávra
Genre
drama film, historical film
Country
Czechoslovakia
Runtime
2h 05m
Rating
6.3 of 10 from 10 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

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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