A TV adaptation of the famous novel in which writer Zikmund Winter depicts the life story of Prague university professor and humanist poet Jan Campanus Vodňanský and his efforts to save the ancient university after the Battle of White Mountain. Campanus gradually loses all his battles. The path of concessions leads to unintentional but tragic guilt when, at Campanus's unwitting instigation, the Jesuits seize the child of the executed Jesenius. The difficult post-White Mountain period in the Czech lands presented Campanus with a dilemma: whether to convert or to keep a clear conscience, a conflict of power and honor so common in our history...
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Václav Postránecký
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Václav Vydra
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Jan Kraus
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Karel Hlušička
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Marketa Lazarová
Zdenek Sirový Director · Ondřej Vogeltanz Writer Věra Kalábová Writer
First release June 24, 1993 · Produced in Czechia
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Česká televize
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Czechia
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Original language
Czech
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Czech
Release dates
Czechia · June 24, 1993
TV · ČT1
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