
Spanilá jízda
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...
- Year: 1963
- Country: Czechoslovakia
- Genre: Drama, History
- Studio: Filmové studio Barrandov
- Keyword: middle ages (476-1453), 15th century, hussite wars (1419-1434)
- Director: Oldřich Daněk
- Cast: Petr Kostka, Jiří Vala, Michaela Lohniská, Jaroslav Průcha, Martin Růžek, Jiří Holý