---
title: 'Jan Hus (1954)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Otakar Vávra'
released: '1954-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 125
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'History'
countries:
  - 'Czechoslovakia'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/jan-hus-1954'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047128/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Jan Hus (1954)

1954 · 125 min · Drama, History · Czechoslovakia


## Synopsis

Jan Hus  is a 1954 Czechoslovak film about Jan Hus, an early Christian reformer. It is the first part of the "Hussite Revolutionary Trilogy", one of the most famous works of Otakar Vávra, completed with Jan Žižka (1955) and Against All (1956).

## Credits

- **Director:** [Otakar Vávra](https://cinepixo.com/people/otakar-vavra)
- **Screenplay:** [Otakar Vávra](https://cinepixo.com/people/otakar-vavra), [Miloš Václav Kratochvíl](https://cinepixo.com/people/milos-vaclav-kratochvil)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Jiří Srnka](https://cinepixo.com/people/jiri-srnka)
- **Director of Photography:** [Václav Hanuš](https://cinepixo.com/people/vaclav-hanus)
- **Editor:** [Antonín Zelenka](https://cinepixo.com/people/antonin-zelenka)

## Cast

- [Rudolf Deyl](https://cinepixo.com/people/rudolf-deyl-2) as Stanislaus von Znaim
- [Ladislav Pešek](https://cinepixo.com/people/ladislav-pesek) as clown Miserere
- [Jarmila Krulišová](https://cinepixo.com/people/jarmila-krulisova)
- [Jaroslav Orlický](https://cinepixo.com/people/jaroslav-orlicky)
- [Zdeněk Štěpánek](https://cinepixo.com/people/zdenek-stepanek) as Jan Hus
- [Josef Kemr](https://cinepixo.com/people/josef-kemr) as student Ješek
- [Marie Svobodová](https://cinepixo.com/people/marie-svobodova)
- [Karel Jelínek](https://cinepixo.com/people/karel-jelinek)
- [František Roland](https://cinepixo.com/people/frantisek-roland)
- [Antonín Šůra](https://cinepixo.com/people/antonin-sura)
- [Viktor Očásek](https://cinepixo.com/people/viktor-ocasek)
- [Jaroslav Seník](https://cinepixo.com/people/jaroslav-senik)
- [Karel Höger](https://cinepixo.com/people/karel-hoger) as Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia
- [Josef Mixa](https://cinepixo.com/people/josef-mixa) as Martin
- [Miloš Kopecký](https://cinepixo.com/people/milos-kopecky)

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/jan-hus-1954
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