Spanilá jízda

Spanilá jízda (1963) blends Drama and History elements. Top cast includes Petr Kostka, Jiří Vala, and Michaela Lohniská. Family dynamics play a central role in how the story evolves.

Actor: Petr Kostka • Genre: Drama movies

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...