Mistr Kampanus

The story

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...

Cast

V Václav Postránecký M Miroslav Donutil F František Němec O Ondřej Vetchý V Václav Vydra O Oldřich Vízner J Jan Kraus K Karel Hlušička L Lenka Skopalová E Eva Jakoubková R Rudolf Hrušínský J Josef Kemr

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J Jan Kačer J Jan Vlasák J Jana Štěpánková E Eduard Cupák L Ladislav Frej A Alois Švehlík V Václav Kotva G Gaston Šubert J Jiří Havel P Petr Meissel