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Jan Hus is a 1954 Czechoslovak film directed by Otakar Vávra. It is the first part of the "Hussite Revolutionary Trilogy", one of the most famous works of the Czechoslovak director, completed with Jan Žižka (1955) and Proti všem (Against All Odds, 1957).
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Zdeněk Štěpánek Karel Höger Jan Pivec Vlasta Matulová Ladislav Pešek Gustav Hilmar Vítězslav Vejražka Václav Voska Eduard Kohout Bedřich Karen František Smolík Otomar Krejča Vladimír Řepa František Kreuzmann Marie Tomášová Josef Mixa Eduard Cupák Antonín Šůra Marie Brožová Vilém Besser Vladimír Hlavatý Bohuš Hradil Rudolf Deyl Ladislav Boháč Josef Kemr Jaroslav Mareš Vladimír Leraus Bohuš Záhorský Marie Nademlejnská Rudolf Hrušínský Světla Amortová Radovan Lukavský Miloš Nedbal Václav Vydra František Kovářík Jiří Steimar Miloš Kopecký Marie Svobodová Felix le Breux Miroslav Doležal J. O. Martin Václav Švec Hynek Němec Miroslav Šipovič Eva Strupplová Vlastimil Brodský Libuše Pešková Stanislav Langer Štěpán Bulejko Richard Záhorský Vojta Plachý-Tůma František Roland František Marek Vojta Novák Oldřich Vykypěl Karel Jelínek František Klika Gustav Opočenský Jiří Hurta Jaroslav Orlický Viktor Očásek Jarmila Krulišová Hermína Vojtová Karel Pavlík Jaroslav Seník Adolf Vojta-Jurný Adolf Král Libuše Zemková Josef Bartůněk Marta Májová Anita Janová
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