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Spanilá jízda (1963)
Directed by Oldřich Daněk
Overview
In the Hussite times, religious truth was sifted even on the tips of weapons. When in 1430 the Hussites set out on a raid to Nuremberg, the so-called Spanila Cavalry, to defend their doctrine, the young commander of the cavalry, the landowner Keřský, whose bride had once been kidnapped by a vicious crusader, saw it as an opportunity for personal revenge. Although Oldřich Daněk has tried to establish a distinctive interpretation of historical events, he reflects on where the blinded desire to punish a bad deed with further cruelty leads, but his version seems too thesis-like and lifeless, it does not rise above the descriptively illustrated scenes from old Czech chronicles…
Actors
Petr Kostka | Jiří Vala | Michaela Lohniská | Jaroslav Průcha | Martin Růžek | Jiří Holý | Karel Höger | Vlasta Fialová | Václav Špidla | Otakar Brousek sr. | Jaroslava Tvrzníková | Vladimír Stach | Oldřich Velen | Jan Skopeček | Oldřich Janovský | Jiří Brdečka | Jaroslav Boček | Zdeněk Podskalský | František Vláčil | František Vrba | Leoš Suchařípa | Jaroslav Kříž | Jaroslav Mařan | Jiří Bělohoubek | Josef Bradáč | Vl. Burda | Ladislav Dražan | Josef Fajta | Ladislav Gzela | František Halmazňa | Jindřich Heidelberg | Vladimír Linka | Magda Maděrová | Frantisek Nechyba | J. Reis | J. Skružný | Karel Škorpík | Věra Ždichyncová | Jaroslav Drbohlav