Spanilá jízda
(1963)
★ 7 IMDb · 2 votes
Year: 1963
Country: Czechoslovakia
Director: Oldřich Daněk
Cast: Petr Kostka, Jiří Vala, Michaela Lohniská, Jaroslav Průcha, Martin Růžek, Jiří Holý, Karel Höger, Vlasta Fialová, Václav Špidla, Otakar Brousek
Plot
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...