Jan Žižka

The path to Hussitism as a war movement seemed weaker to me compared to Vávra's Jan Hus, which had bigger ideas and significantly criticized the church. Even the film Jan Žižka is critical, not only of the clergy but even more so of the nobility. Still, it is essentially a revolutionary film that says that it is possible to make a difference through revolution. Hussitism itself did not confirm this. (28.07.2017)

In Jan Žižka, Otakar Vávra and Miloš Václav Kratochvíl could no longer rely on Jirásek, and it shows. Dramatically, the film is exceptionally weak, and all efforts are in vain because the entire film is devoted exclusively to the Battle of Sudoměř. Nothing else matters, and nothing else makes sense. That's why the whole subplot with Czech King Václav IV, who descended among the common people and learned about their moral qualities, feels so out of place. (13.09.2024)