Hussite Collection (4DVD) - DVD

Jan Hus
directed by: Otakar Vávra, 1954, 115 min.
The first part of Otakar Vávra' s Hussite revolutionary trilogy describes the revolutionary events in the period from May 1412 to the summer of 1415.
starring: OF. Štěpánek, K. Höger, J. Pivec, V. Matulová, L. Pešek, G. Hilmar, V. Vejražka
BONUSES: word of film historian PhDr. Pavla Taussiga, photo, biography and filmography, contemporary documentation, interviews with Otto Lackovic, Radovan Lukavský, Jaroslav Semeš Bohumil Švarc
SUBTITLES: English and Czech for the deaf

Jan Žižka
directed by: Otakar Vávra, 1955, 102 min.
The second part of the Hussite trilogy takes place in the years 1419-1420, when Jan Žižka took the lead of the rebel people and waged a victorious battle near the town of Sudoměř.
starring: OF. Štěpánek, K. Höger, J. Pivec, V. Matulová, L. Pešek, F. Horák, V. Wax, V. Vejražka
BONUSES: photography, biography and filmography, contemporary documentation, “Remembrance of Otakar Vávra“, pictorial appendix and maps
SUBTITLES: English and Czech for the deaf

Against all
directed by: Otakar Vávra, 1957, 109 min.
The third part follows the events after the Battle of Sudoměř, when the fortifications of the town of Tábor began to be built, but in Prague the people of Tábor will clash in a bloody manner with Sigismund' s troops on Mount Vítkov.
starring: OF. Štěpánek, J. Pivec, V. Matulová, G. Hilmar, B. Karen, M. Doležal, V. Wax
BONUSES: photography, biography and filmography, contemporary documentation, word historian Prof. PhDr. František Šmahel, DrSc.
SUBTITLES: English and Czech for the deaf

Jan Roháč from Dubá
directed by: Vladimir Borsky, 1947, 83 min.
Vladimír Borský' s film tells the story of the last phase of the fighting of the remnants of the Hussite troops after the Battle of Lipany.
starring: O. Korbelář, L. Boháč, E. Bolek, F. le Breux, O. Čermák, R. Deyl, G. Ekl
BONUSES: word of film historian PhDr. Pavel Taussig, photography, biography and filmography, contemporary documentation, contemporary documentation on DVD-ROM
SUBTITLES: English and Czech for the deaf