Jan Hus (1954 film)

Jan Hus
Directed byOtakar Vávra
Written byOtakar Vávra
Milos Václav Kratochvíl
StarringZdeněk Štěpánek
Karel Höger
Vlasta Matulová
Music byJiři Srnka
Release date
  • 1954 (1954)
Running time
115 minutes
CountryCzech Republic
LanguageCzech
Budget13 million KČs[1]

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).[2]

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  2. ^ Brian Kenety (16 September 2011). "Iconic Czech film director Otakar Vávra dies aged 100" (in Czech). Archived from the original on 22 March 2012. Retrieved 17 September 2011.