This is a battle scene from the Czech movie trilogy about the Hussite Wars. (this scene is from the last film - Proti všem / Against All, 1956), directed by Otakar Vávra. These movies are very hard to find. (I had it on my old VHS tape myself). So I would like to show you how the Czechs used to make historical films back then. It's pretty accurate for a 70-year-old movie. Historical note in video description. I created and translated English subtitles for this scene and edited them into the video. I have simplified the subtitles a bit -so that you understand what is happening. Sorry about mistakes. I am not a professional translator and the beauty of the Czech language cannot be translated exactly easily. :) I had to cut about a minute out of this scene - the part where the Hussites shoot the Crusaders' horses with crossbows and howitzers, because otherwise YT wouldn't let me upload the scene. :( Enjoy.
I ask, what role did Communism play, if any, in Eastern Bloc filmmaking? In addition to these movies, I've also be meaning to see a Polish film from 1960 called Krzyżacy, but I've always been curious if the filmmakers had to put in any Communist aspects to please their governments.
If You like it You can also check scene of Battle of Grunwald from movie "Krzyżacy". It`s from 1960 and it`s still one of the best medieval battles in cinematic history.
Better armors, better peasents, better medieval battle and better strategy than every modern "medieval" production. Bring back authenticity for modern shows !!!
Not completely true, but close enough. I do think they should have used real mail at least on the main characters. Žižka does look kinda ridiculous in that sweater.
Money money money... This film was shot when commustits ruled and they based on another principles. If the party approves film - filmmakers will have everything what they need, dress and armor from museams, soldiers for massiv scenes etc, if not - they will be prohibited from filming.
@@screaminggoblin36 There was material and cost issue with that during the communist regime in Czechoslovakia. Why use metal for costumes when this was cheaper and more importantly way faster to produce
The knights dismounted. You would dismount farther away. Because you dont want your horse get shot by an archer or crossbow. Assault would be by ladders. This only works if you have overwhelming numbers climbing the ladders. What I miss is the huzars disabling the cannons atthe river crossing.
I am completely floored at the scale of this movie. All those people, on horses, doing all these extremely dangerous and complicated stunts. No special effects here, this is all practical! Absolutely amazing. I never saw a Czechoslovakian film before but this is incredibly impressive, what a work of art.
If you want scale look up old soviet war movies. They used army to shoot them and when the original battle was clash of 50 tanks they used 500 just for lols.
This is NOTHING on modern cinema. AMAZING work to this production. I wish we could live in a time where this amount of passion, care and planning was put into movies. Amazing!
Thank you very much! There are many historical films from the last century with epic battles and hundreds of extras, but they are not very well known - either they are too old or they are not available. My favorite "hobby" is to search for Asian historical films. I have a long list of these films, but unfortunately I have copyrights (sometimes the owners block these films in all countries of the world) and I also cannot upload them, perhaps because it harms my channel. For some reason, TH-cam sends me complaints about "violent content" etc. That is why some videos have been removed. But if I manage to find something good, I will definitely upload it! :)
They are three wonderful historical films. If they were not filmed in communist Czechoslovakia, but in one of the Western countries, the whole world would know them today.
Western countries can't shoot a film which against Jesus or Crusaders, so you can see a Crusader movie in West but you can't see a movie about Hussites War
Western countries can't shoot a film which against Jesus or Crusaders, so you can see a Crusader movie in West but you can't see a movie about Hussites War
If they weren't filmed in a socialist country, they wouldn't be such good movies. Communist cinema was bold and unreplicable, Eastern European movies from those times are masterpieces. Under capitalism pretty much all commercial art is a slop, made to safely fill the pockets of shareholders.
The Hussite army was a blend of peasants, semi-professional soldiers, mercenaries, and seasoned warriors. Indeed, peasants had a significant military role in this force. Do not overlook the pivotal role Jan Žižka played in the Hussite army, one of the finest military leaders of his era.
It's crazy to me that a 70 year old film has this much historical research into it. The costumes are better than 90% of films out there, the inclusion of the often forgotten but very present Hospitaller Knights (02:12) is great and very mindfull, and the shot from 3:30 onwards quite literally looks like the paintings contemporary artists produced to represent medieval sieges. Absolute work of art.
I am so proud of my ancestors. “Seek the truth, hear the truth, learn the truth, love the truth, speak the truth, hold the truth and defend the truth until death”.
Ta doba husitska, nebylo neco na co by jsme meli byt hrdi. Husite byli neco jako novodoby komunisti, proto je vlastne komunisti take prijmuli jakoby svuj idol doby, Husite brali vsechno a vsem a bylo ji uplne jedno jestli pristi rok budou sedlaci schopni zasadit obili nebo podojit kravy, doba podoboji. Mrkni na to tema. Diky tomu zemrelo mnoho lidi zbytecne. Uceni Jana Husa byli potom zneuzito jen k posileni moci jinych.
твои предки просрали всё из за грызни между собой. потом, твои предки помагали нацистам уничтожать миллионы людей. Ты такое же дерьмо, как и твои предки?
Fun fact: The Hussites were indeed quite often singing battle hymns and chorales, as it helped to improve their morale while it demoralized their enemies. Their most famous chorale, "Ktož jsú boží bojovníci", is basically a guideline turned into a song. It's quite smart - this way, even the illiterate peasants could remember what they were supposed to do.
Imagine being a Catholic knight, learning the blade and training your whole life, wearing fancy and expensive armor, thinking you're gonna easily stomp some heretical peasants, only to get wasted by a dude with a crossbow sitting in a wagon. Zizka the ultimate medieval chad
The Vatican (under Pope Innocent II) actually moved to ban crossbows due to the aristocrats being outraged at the idea of peasant conscripts having weapons that can easily pierce their expensive armors. However, due to its popularity, it (as well as later ban attempts) ultimately went nowhere and it became a staple of medieval armies.
@@totoblaubar8393 Well actually the original number of defenders of those makeshift fortifications can be pretty accurate as it was quite a narrow place. What is not mentioned is the number of reinforcements that surprised the Crusader force and fell upon their unguarded flank. Then it was rout as was pretty usual in the Medieval times. The Margrave of Meissen who fought on the Crusader side described it like this: "Also the said heretics have fortified a hill near Prague and are making log cabins there and settled there, wherefore the king ordered the people of other princes and ours to take them by assault, and our people crossed their trenches and tried to conquer the third trench, when so many heretics came out from the city of Prague to help those who were on the hill, that it was necessary to withdraw our people, who were badly wounded and many had lost their horses." So originally the garrison could have pretty well been small and was about to be wiped out save the reinforcements...
The Hussites are worthy of study. They came up with innovative tactics and a lot of the 'I wonder what would have happened if..." type stuff, they actually did!
It's nice to see an old movie produced in the Mother tongue. I am proud of my Czech heritage, I was born in Prague at Visehrad. Zizka utilized some modern tactics, armored wagons as APCs, sledges with multiple small cannon as mobile artillery, biochemical warfare, etc. The peasants were deadly with flails as they were so used to using them to tresh grain. Yes, the cream of German chivalry was beaten by the Hussite armies. The Germans ran in terror when they heard the Hussites approaching, singing Kdo Jsou Bozi Bojovnicy (Who Are God's Warriors).
isn't the Wagenburg more like field fortifications, also Zizka used what was euphemistically called Pipers(early European arquebus) as well, the Hussite wars are very fascinating to study.
Emperor Sigismund's army was not exclusively German, but rather composed of crusaders from all parts of Europe, largely consisting of adventurers attracted by the hope of pillage. A common thing for centuries before and after.
@@petrchaloupka9260 Nejspis uz desitky let v CR nezije a ten jazyk nepouziva. Zajdi se mrknout do debaty pod libovolnym clankem na novinkach a to teprv uvidis przneni gramatiky. A to jsou mistni.
Zizka left 60 of his best men on Vitkov Hill. Those 60 were veterans they had seen battle and probably wore good armor that they plundered from the battles they fought in before. Don't get me wrong the depiction was great but the defenders would have looked more like knights then peasents.
@@FilipMoncriefIt is a communist propaganda from 1956. History is (de)reconstructed here as a poor and good class villagers and peasants living in Tábor komuna (collective property) vs. Feudalism (AKA evil rich and proud guys, like capitalists from Wall Street)
And not just any kind of Knights, but the cream of the German Nobility, backed up by full papal sanction(essentially the Hussite wars were crusades, any good Catholics participating would be given the remission of all sins), with top notch arms and armour as well!
You can. On YT there is Part 1 "Jan Hus" and Part 3 "Against All". But in the original version without subtitles. I did not find the Part 2 "Jan Žižka". th-cam.com/video/z1ZBOqz6CD0/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/jcT-GZrDI0s/w-d-xo.html
The movie takes place quite far from "eastern Europe". Prague was the capital city of the Holy Roman Empire. Sigismund actually had to travel west to get to Prague and after the battle he went back to the east.
@@edmadden2091 Well not exactly all his time - he lead troops, which were professional soldiers, from The Polish & Lithuatian commonwealth against the Teutonic Order in today's northern Poland. He wasn't the main strategist during this conflict but it definitely helped him gain much needed experience. th-cam.com/video/Hgl77ZdyxvE/w-d-xo.html is a very high quality video depicting it in detail. They usually make some mistakes here and there but it's corrected in comments.
Fun fact: There has been an reenactment of this battle in 1920 in Prag going so awry that hundreds of ppl (and tens of horses) were injured. Numerous properties were damaged and the actors of the Hussites had to flee from the angry mob of the Crusaders.
Whats really nice to see is that at then ending scene you can see St. Vitus Cathedral, while being still under construction in 1950s, which underwent slightly longer than 6 hundred long constuction ... being finished in late 1950s
Gotta love these old movies: No CGI all real actors and masses of them. Neat costumes and no exxageration of blood and gore. Random deaths for no good reasons included XD.
The milita of sorts aren't using fancy tencniques and the ones who found swords use them in the most human way without edge alignment training or armoured combat experience No plate armour cut clean in two, people get dropped by broken bones or general shock, I think some get up
The only other modern film show ive seen that does it properly is The King. They do the Battle of Agincourt in it, and theres no excessive gore, and knight-on-knight combat is done fairly realistically.
Love the costumes. We are not able to make such historical movies anymore. Even though they are older, they are impressive. I'm annoyed by today's Hollywood portrayal of Middle Age period movies.
the film is professionally well made, it is influenced by the communist propaganda of the time that the Hussite revolution, which lasted a short time, was strongly progressive. The Paris Commune had a similar rating. Today, we have a different view of the history of that time. (birth 1952)
Young Jan Zizka fought in Battle of Grunwald on the side of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. His experience from that war helped him in his later career.
@@abalayn22 yes, Žižka helped Lithuanian Grand Duchy then. Also my surname has "č" and "š" letters, which was invented by Jan Hus. Same person that influenced Rise of Protestantism and Rise our civilization. Not mentioning how great Czech resisted against Soviets and now supports Ukraine. Czech is one of the most beautiful, smart, strong and intelligent nations in the world.
@@tomascc9367 Don't be ridiculous. We are all just men. We all have flaws. Czechs are as flawed as any other. History is history. All we can do is strive to be honest and do our best in our own time on this Earth.
In her book 'The Great Controversy' E G White, in the chapter No.6 Two Heroes Face Death, referring to Huss and Jerome, ends the chapter on the Hussite wars. What an incredible chapter in the history of Bohemia. Huss, an absolute legend of a reformer, who stood up to the might of Catholic Europe, Jerome, who followed him soon after, Ziska and Procopius. I'm from Australia and had the pleasure of visiting the very spot where Huss and Jerome were martyred for their faith. She quotes J A Wylie and how a mysterious fear fell upon the crusaders who turned and fled. Instead of the war impovershing Bohemia, it enriched it, as the Hussites took the booty of the enemy. When Christ returns and makes all these anew, I will meet this two heroes, these reformers, and the rest of the Bohemians who were martyred after. But not yet...not yet.
I know I shouldn't laugh, I know I shouldn't laugh, but man, the czech language is a funny language. And the scene itself is well done. The hussite tactis is shown perfectly. And Zizka himself looks like he just went from Grunwald a few years earlier. Altough is that me or were there much more than 60 pesants ?
These lines of dialogue at the end were superb: general: Your majesty, I led the line according to the rules king: And that blind man kicked it, unleashed dirty peasants with flails on you, and now the line and rules are broken! general: Fear fell upon our army. That's what helped the heretics! King: And why didn't it fall on them? They sing while attacking and dying, and you flee. They chase you like a herd. What a disgrace before all christendom.
Even there were a few injuries during these scenes, but no horse have been killed :-) Anyway the budget of the movie was half a Billion Czech crowns, which was approx. 23 milion Dollars - in 1956 !!!For example the Ben Hur movie was only 15 million Dollars... 🤯
Didn't know the movie looked so good, gotta watch it now! All I knew was my mother telling me there was propaganda in it, so I didn't pay it any attention lol
Glad you like it. I think the knights only used horses to get closer to the fort faster in armor. While the Hussites shot their horses, the knights dismounted and attempted to cross the battlements on foot. :)
Something tells me that the reason the war in which this battle took place happened was due to royals and nobles treating the common folk badly, right?
Not entirely. Hussite wars were primarily religious wars. There was "dispute" between Catholics and new Christian movement inspired by John Wycliffe called Ultraquism or Calixtinism. In simplified terms, this dispute escalated into the conflict known as the Hussite Wars
If the Catholic Church hadn’t been so corrupt doing bad things to good people, Christian or nonchristians, Christianity wouldn’t have been hated so much.
Not really. The main reason behind the Hussite wars was... quite the opposite. Hussites were a movement of all people, some poor, some rich, some aristocrats. The previous king even agreed with many of their ideas. I will try to explain it a bit: The peasants in Bohemia didn't suffer the plague, black death, like in the rest of Europe. So in the second half of the 1300s, many Bohemians left to work in the rest of Europe, which highly increased the amount of land available to those remaining and increased also wages. They were living pretty good lives. The reason why Prague is so popular tourist spot is because a huge part of the city center is in one grand architectonic style as it was built in the mid-to-late 1300s. Life was pretty good. At the same time, the University of Prague started operating (the only in central Europe, it was the only one west from Paris and North from the Alps) and new ideas started spreading. One of the scholars, later rector of the university, was Jan Hus, follower of Jonh Wickliffe. He criticized the church as an organizations and called for a reform. By the way a century later a German scholar Martin Luther read about him and got inspired, calling Hus a truly holy man who was right about the church. Unlike Luther, Hus was taken captive by the church, tortured and burned alive. At that time he had many followers from all layers of the society. They started calling themselves Husite (Hussites) and they lived by his ideas. Hus preached a version of christianity based on the bible, not on the authority of the popes (there were several popes fighting each other at that time). He believed in the truth, the word of god, in living a life of harmony, honesty and without unreasonable luxury. He was even friend of the king. The teaching became very popular probably because in the times the church couldn't offer much, they were just collecting money, selling indulgences and using it for fighting against other parts of the church. The Hussites wanted to start their own settlement tolive by their rules, but the church called a crusade against them and the crusaders tried to massacre them. At that time, Zizka took charge of the Hussites and managed to win against insane odds. Effectively ending the middle ages mounted knight superiority on the battlefield by utilizing guns and war wagons. Also, the hussites were deeply religious people who knew they have no other chance than fight as their enemies want to massacre them no matter what. So when the cavalry charged against them, they didn't run away, but held the pikes and stood their ground, which made it impossible for the crusaders to break the Hussite lines.
Only partly. The biggest reason were the religious differences caused by the Papal Schism and execution of Jan Hus, a very popular Czech preacher. Also, king Sigismund of Hungary was very much disliked among the population, so his inheritance of the Bohemian Crown was a final straw for many. Core of the Hussites were indeed the peasants and commoners, but they had also plenty of lesser nobles (including Jan Žižka himself) and even some significant noble supporters. It is also worth the mention that the Hussites had multiple different factions, some of them even fought against each other, but they usually united during the foreign invasions.
Hussites were the most bad ass god warriors of all time, leaded for the best General of all time Ian Zizka... Even Gengis KHAN loose battle. Ian zizka win all his combats.
Its historical fact, in real Vitkov inst fortification on prime, its only wood fence and one wooden tower on little hill, army of crusade (Zigismund) have 8/1 Cavalry (because prestige of highest knights) and they think "chalice army" just start fleeying by watch his power of army, but thats never happen and thats it, spirit and bad leadership of crusade army make heroes from peasants.
That is the core of why Hussites managed to defeat 5 crusades against them. Crusaders were tied by chivalric code of conduct. By wasting day or two to set up artilery and blow that little fort to pieces, they would lose their face. They would lose their honor. It would be as if they were admiting that few dozens soldiers in small tiny fort is too much for their huge army. Hussites did not bother with any such restrictions or rules of engagement - mostly because they were constantly outnumbered and outequiped - because they were kinda desperate to survive in first place. To paraphrase supposed quote from that time: "If the honorable knights think it is fair to face us with all their horses and armor and numerical advantage, I do not think I want to fight like a honorable knight"
Yes indeed on several occasions. But for the most part it wasn't easy against them. Back then, the French were feared. And that is why the English value so much each of their valiant achievements, above them.
Well, the same emperor Sigismund has seen impetuous charge of French knights into poorly reconnoitered Turkish army at Nicopolis, who first rampaged through untrained Turkish infantry to be overwhelmed by unexpected Sipahi attack. He should have known better 24 years later.
Cringe french white flag american joke. France has always been a nation of warriors and knights, especially in medieval times, it was a military superpower. Try to insult the soldiers who died at verdun coward
Was not funny when it happened in real life. The peasants did not use long sticks, but flails with spikes. Very deadly. The peasants were skilled in using them as they used regular flails to thresh grain for most of their lives.
Ok, who the feck gave the order for a uphill cavalry charge head on against an entrenched and heavily manned defensive structure in the shadow of large manned stone walls? 3 guys and their dog could of held off an attack like that if this was their level of tactical acumen…
The battle was led by the famous Italian general Filippo Scollari, nicknamed Pippo Spano. That's the redhead with the gold-lined armor, on the white horse, with the red harness. (That herald named him when he announced the news to the king). The attack itself was led by the Meissen Governor Heinrich of Isenburg, who fell there during the conquest of the third trench in front of the wall built of clay and stone around two log cabins. The attackers used those horses for fast transportation and for the effect of intimidating the people of Prague. Of course, they attacked the fortified cabins on foot. The mistake was sending an excessive force of up to 8 thousand horsemen, so they began to crowd in front of the fortifications on the hill. Every newly minted knight and his people longed for glory, but pride precedes a fall! And "heavily stocked" log cabins? Yeah, but only in the movie. According to historical records, only 29 people, including three women, were occupied in those fortified cabins! They quickly ran out of arrows and howitzer powder. "They defended themselves valiantly with stones and voulges." Allegedly, Žižka himself almost fell there, after being pulled from a low wall into a ditch. And allegedly, at that very moment, a counterattack from the city struck from the southern slope, consisting of 50 crossbowmen and several hundred unarmored flailmen. They were led by a priest carrying the sacrament of Christ's body. "And when the enemies saw the sacrament and heard the ringing of the bell and the loud cry of the people, seized with great fear they fled and fled very quickly, wanting to outrun each other in running. And unable to hold their own against this attack, many fell from a high rock and broke their neck, many were slain by the pursuers, so that in the course of a single hour nearly three hundred were slain, and others mortally wounded and carried off." Vavřinec of Březová a Hussite man of letters and a direct participant in the Hussite Wars. So much and more at: cs.wikipedia Have a nice day!
They were forcing themselves across the middle wall. You can clearly see them forcing themselves across. Say what you like, but 60 against 8k, even in that sort of position, wouldnt have won the day. It was only the timely intervention of the flailmen on the flank that saved the fort.
@Conan_the_Based nah you wouldn't cuz that's dumb. 8,000 men against 60 men in a fortification is dumb choice choice sent all 8,000 men at once. That's dog piling your men preventing maneuverability and room to move. Also disrupts chain of command and discipline. Even more so these idiots rode their horses to the walls when you aren't supposed to do that unless your dismounting which barely any of them did.
@@koreancowboy42 The reason there were 3000 (not 8000) was to secure the river crossing on both banks from any counterattack from the city, he had like 20 000 on the other bank. Main reason this fort attack and subsequent planned encirclement of the city was unsuccesful is fear factor. Hussites had pretty gruesome reputation and on multiple occasions and multiple battles crusading forces were routed only by their mere presence and singing. Sigismund, the crusaders leader, underestimated this severely.
Can someone give me the names of movies like this, cuz in Poland we have very similar movies, don't need eng sub, I understand your language in 75% anyway, dziękuję bardzo
CZECH : Jan Hus, Jan Žižka, Jan Roháč z Dubé, Proti všem, Jan Sladký Kozina... SLOVAKIAN : Jánošík .. I like your Polish : Křížáci, Potopa, Ogniem i miečem , pan Michail Wolodiovsky
Communist authorities in Eastern countries did much to support local nationalisms, particularly through big-budget films. Two objectives: 1) Make the inhabitants believe that they were led by uncompromising patriots and therefore make them forget that they were subject to the Soviets who occupied the country. 2) Present the people in general and the peasants in particular as heroic figures oppressed by the aristocrats, the clergy or the Germans. These films, which are sometimes excellent, have done a lot to reinforce the vision that these people have of their own past, sometimes with blatant anachronisms and biases. Jivkov in Bulgaria, Gomulka in Poland, Kadar in Hungary and Ceaucescu in Romania used this method a lot
That's a historical fact. At the time & place only some 60 peasans & low nobility successfully defended against the Sigismud Emperor's elite forces with help of very modest fortifications (and more than half of them died there if I remeber well). Their fierce defence was the key to win the battle that is very well described here: th-cam.com/video/FWk5AA2iiJU/w-d-xo.html
60 what? Sorry, but "peasant" is a term of propaganda, and it far from truth even concerning the social origin. In reality those men were: low rank nobles, some priests, citizens of the czech towns and cities, and of course some peasants. That concerning their origin
That's true Hussites had even military "tutorial" manuals, building town's such as Tábor Wich needed professional workers , stone mason's, locators, etc... The peasant view was made mostly by communist propaganda, Hussites in the end of 15th century was actually a professionali equiped (looking at szlacht von wenzenbach).
@@cinemacats7543 😊I 've just stated some things for a special category of users😊. Nothing more. Of course I have no expectation from any mine of movie and any kind of propaganda😊I'm to old for any kind of expectation😊
Jan Hus was a wonderful man of God, who held to God's Word, the Bible. Rome, as usual, tried anything it could to silence God's Word, but failed yet again.
This is a battle scene from the Czech movie trilogy about the Hussite Wars. (this scene is from the last film - Proti všem / Against All, 1956), directed by Otakar Vávra.
These movies are very hard to find. (I had it on my old VHS tape myself). So I would like to show you how the Czechs used to make historical films back then.
It's pretty accurate for a 70-year-old movie.
Historical note in video description.
I created and translated English subtitles for this scene and edited them into the video.
I have simplified the subtitles a bit -so that you understand what is happening.
Sorry about mistakes. I am not a professional translator and the beauty of the Czech language cannot be translated exactly easily. :)
I had to cut about a minute out of this scene - the part where the Hussites shoot the Crusaders' horses with crossbows and howitzers, because otherwise YT wouldn't let me upload the scene. :(
Enjoy.
Já jsem si říkal proč tam kus chybí. Mimochodem, není naprosto žádný problém si ty filmy stáhnout.
parada, thanks!
Awesome movies. Would love to see them on 4K UHD discs with norwegian subtitles.
Toto je celkom dobrá kvalita,. vydali to v HD aelbo si to upravil?
I ask, what role did Communism play, if any, in Eastern Bloc filmmaking? In addition to these movies, I've also be meaning to see a Polish film from 1960 called Krzyżacy, but I've always been curious if the filmmakers had to put in any Communist aspects to please their governments.
Look at that, lots of extras, actually good/grounded costumes, epic battles. Honestly better than most modern movie battles.
Yeah I wonder how many horses died and even people or heavy injures must have been taken.
@@matesdantesable ye
If You like it You can also check scene of Battle of Grunwald from movie "Krzyżacy". It`s from 1960 and it`s still one of the best medieval battles in cinematic history.
@@elah1023 Naah bro it is not good. Im sorry.
@@matesdantesablewhat would you say is better besides this clip ?
Better armors, better peasents, better medieval battle and better strategy than every modern "medieval" production. Bring back authenticity for modern shows !!!
Not completely true, but close enough. I do think they should have used real mail at least on the main characters. Žižka does look kinda ridiculous in that sweater.
Money money money... This film was shot when commustits ruled and they based on another principles. If the party approves film - filmmakers will have everything what they need, dress and armor from museams, soldiers for massiv scenes etc, if not - they will be prohibited from filming.
@@screaminggoblin36 There was material and cost issue with that during the communist regime in Czechoslovakia. Why use metal for costumes when this was cheaper and more importantly way faster to produce
The knights dismounted. You would dismount farther away. Because you dont want your horse get shot by an archer or crossbow. Assault would be by ladders. This only works if you have overwhelming numbers climbing the ladders. What I miss is the huzars disabling the cannons atthe river crossing.
Did you see the movie "Medieval (2022)" about Jan Zizka.
I am completely floored at the scale of this movie. All those people, on horses, doing all these extremely dangerous and complicated stunts. No special effects here, this is all practical! Absolutely amazing. I never saw a Czechoslovakian film before but this is incredibly impressive, what a work of art.
If you want scale look up old soviet war movies. They used army to shoot them and when the original battle was clash of 50 tanks they used 500 just for lols.
By the way, this is only the last scene from a movie trilogy.
Hussite trilogy are literally my favourite movies ever. It's just so well done.
This is NOTHING on modern cinema. AMAZING work to this production. I wish we could live in a time where this amount of passion, care and planning was put into movies. Amazing!
the old days have gone forever !
I love it when you make videos like these, bringing out the obscure and hidden movies about the time period we all love to learn!
Thank you very much! There are many historical films from the last century with epic battles and hundreds of extras, but they are not very well known - either they are too old or they are not available.
My favorite "hobby" is to search for Asian historical films. I have a long list of these films, but unfortunately I have copyrights (sometimes the owners block these films in all countries of the world) and I also cannot upload them, perhaps because it harms my channel. For some reason, TH-cam sends me complaints about "violent content" etc. That is why some videos have been removed.
But if I manage to find something good, I will definitely upload it! :)
They are three wonderful historical films. If they were not filmed in communist Czechoslovakia, but in one of the Western countries, the whole world would know them today.
Slava rodu Ceskeho.
I don't want to be ugly. It is full of vile communist propaganda.
Western countries can't shoot a film which against Jesus or Crusaders, so you can see a Crusader movie in West but you can't see a movie about Hussites War
Western countries can't shoot a film which against Jesus or Crusaders, so you can see a Crusader movie in West but you can't see a movie about Hussites War
If they weren't filmed in a socialist country, they wouldn't be such good movies. Communist cinema was bold and unreplicable, Eastern European movies from those times are masterpieces. Under capitalism pretty much all commercial art is a slop, made to safely fill the pockets of shareholders.
The Hussite army was a blend of peasants, semi-professional soldiers, mercenaries, and seasoned warriors. Indeed, peasants had a significant military role in this force. Do not overlook the pivotal role Jan Žižka played in the Hussite army, one of the finest military leaders of his era.
But the commies made it so I guess they're all peasants now. Lol
A man who never lost a battle.
da ya yes jiskra soldieri, Matthias Corvin king army colonel , 9000 warriors czech-morva kontingens/Hungary-army full riders
Crusaders should have used Auto-Resolve smh
total war player comrade here hehe
It's crazy to me that a 70 year old film has this much historical research into it.
The costumes are better than 90% of films out there, the inclusion of the often forgotten but very present Hospitaller Knights (02:12) is great and very mindfull, and the shot from 3:30 onwards quite literally looks like the paintings contemporary artists produced to represent medieval sieges.
Absolute work of art.
things were done properly in those days,with much care & attention taken to details,unlike nowadays,which is mostly slapdash !
I am so proud of my ancestors. “Seek the truth, hear the truth, learn the truth, love the truth, speak the truth, hold the truth and defend the truth until death”.
Death is not true: we are all inmortal. If we are not... a-morals.
Ta doba husitska, nebylo neco na co by jsme meli byt hrdi. Husite byli neco jako novodoby komunisti, proto je vlastne komunisti take prijmuli jakoby svuj idol doby, Husite brali vsechno a vsem a bylo ji uplne jedno jestli pristi rok budou sedlaci schopni zasadit obili nebo podojit kravy, doba podoboji. Mrkni na to tema. Diky tomu zemrelo mnoho lidi zbytecne. Uceni Jana Husa byli potom zneuzito jen k posileni moci jinych.
@@juanalvarez5550 Everyone lives forever.....either in Heaven or in Perdition.
твои предки просрали всё из за грызни между собой. потом, твои предки помагали нацистам уничтожать миллионы людей. Ты такое же дерьмо, как и твои предки?
@@gerryjames9720 As atoms.
Fun fact: The Hussites were indeed quite often singing battle hymns and chorales, as it helped to improve their morale while it demoralized their enemies.
Their most famous chorale, "Ktož jsú boží bojovníci", is basically a guideline turned into a song. It's quite smart - this way, even the illiterate peasants could remember what they were supposed to do.
Imagine being a Catholic knight, learning the blade and training your whole life, wearing fancy and expensive armor, thinking you're gonna easily stomp some heretical peasants, only to get wasted by a dude with a crossbow sitting in a wagon. Zizka the ultimate medieval chad
@@Kai.CRoleplaying peasants did well but my god how bad was the leadership to order that attack?
The Vatican (under Pope Innocent II) actually moved to ban crossbows due to the aristocrats being outraged at the idea of peasant conscripts having weapons that can easily pierce their expensive armors. However, due to its popularity, it (as well as later ban attempts) ultimately went nowhere and it became a staple of medieval armies.
All this east European "history" movies are a lot of "Imagination". It's more like 8000 peasants hold a fort against 60 christian knights.
@@totoblaubar8393 Well actually the original number of defenders of those makeshift fortifications can be pretty accurate as it was quite a narrow place. What is not mentioned is the number of reinforcements that surprised the Crusader force and fell upon their unguarded flank. Then it was rout as was pretty usual in the Medieval times. The Margrave of Meissen who fought on the Crusader side described it like this: "Also the said heretics have fortified a hill near Prague and are making log cabins there and settled there, wherefore the king ordered the people of other princes and ours to take them by assault, and our people crossed their trenches and tried to conquer the third trench, when so many heretics came out from the city of Prague to help those who were on the hill, that it was necessary to withdraw our people, who were badly wounded and many had lost their horses." So originally the garrison could have pretty well been small and was about to be wiped out save the reinforcements...
@@totoblaubar8393 aHAHAHAHA! :d
The Hussites are worthy of study. They came up with innovative tactics and a lot of the 'I wonder what would have happened if..." type stuff, they actually did!
It's nice to see an old movie produced in the Mother tongue. I am proud of my Czech heritage, I was born in Prague at Visehrad.
Zizka utilized some modern tactics, armored wagons as APCs, sledges with multiple small cannon as mobile artillery, biochemical warfare, etc. The peasants were deadly with flails as they were so used to using them to tresh grain. Yes, the cream of German chivalry was beaten by the Hussite armies. The Germans ran in terror when they heard the Hussites approaching, singing Kdo Jsou Bozi Bojovnicy (Who Are God's Warriors).
isn't the Wagenburg more like field fortifications, also Zizka used what was euphemistically called Pipers(early European arquebus) as well, the Hussite wars are very fascinating to study.
Emperor Sigismund's army was not exclusively German, but rather composed of crusaders from all parts of Europe, largely consisting of adventurers attracted by the hope of pillage. A common thing for centuries before and after.
Jak může někdo, kdo tvrdí, že se narodil na Vyšehradu napsat Višehrad ????
@@petrchaloupka9260 Nejspis uz desitky let v CR nezije a ten jazyk nepouziva. Zajdi se mrknout do debaty pod libovolnym clankem na novinkach a to teprv uvidis przneni gramatiky. A to jsou mistni.
@@neverstopschweiking Vyšehrad se snad píše všude stejně.
Jan Zizka - one of the greatest military leaders of all time!
Zizka left 60 of his best men on Vitkov Hill. Those 60 were veterans they had seen battle and probably wore good armor that they plundered from the battles they fought in before.
Don't get me wrong the depiction was great but the defenders would have looked more like knights then peasents.
Exactly. Hussite infantry was well armored, especially those who came from city families. Also hussites had quite a few knights under their command.
@@FilipMoncriefIt is a communist propaganda from 1956. History is (de)reconstructed here as a poor and good class villagers and peasants living in Tábor komuna (collective property) vs. Feudalism (AKA evil rich and proud guys, like capitalists from Wall Street)
@@FilipMoncrief EY go back to school im from czech republic it were peasants heavy kngihts were very rare in husits wars
@@justnoone9042He didn’t say they where knights, he said they looked like heavily armoured men at arms
Excuse you lemme " Also Hussites had quite few knights 😂@@Vicotnik don't try to beat me in my own history
Look at that, lots of extras, actually good/grounded costumes, epic battles. Honestly pt
A great demonstration of the effectiveness of the footman's flail.
I saw spetum and ranseur pole arms as well. Very historically accurate. Cool clip.
These guys fought and defeated knights, mad respect
And not just any kind of Knights, but the cream of the German Nobility, backed up by full papal sanction(essentially the Hussite wars were crusades, any good Catholics participating would be given the remission of all sins), with top notch arms and armour as well!
@@woodwyrm guess you shouldn't underestimate a bunch of peasants
@@alfrancisbuada2591 oh indeed!
Did you know later during WW2 one Czech knight stopped German armored colum? :D with sword.. (too much beer in our country i gues)
@@bleo8371 He stopped the collum because they were so confused as to why a man in armor was there. I dont remember if they killed him or not though.
A certain knight be like: I'm feeling quite hungry....😂😂
My thoughts exactly 😭
Žižka: How hungry?
This is outstanding! I would love to see the whole trilogy!
You can. On YT there is Part 1 "Jan Hus" and Part 3 "Against All". But in the original version without subtitles. I did not find the Part 2 "Jan Žižka".
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These Eastern European historical epics are so fun. I'm glad that TH-cam has introduced me to them. Subscribed, keep up the great work.
"Central European" but okay :D
Wait what? This is a Central european film about a Central european war
Use your brain for the 1st time dude. Czechs are CENTRAL European people right? But it is okay you Western people are too stupid to distinguish.
The movie takes place quite far from "eastern Europe". Prague was the capital city of the Holy Roman Empire. Sigismund actually had to travel west to get to Prague and after the battle he went back to the east.
@@neverstopschweiking To vy v USA jste daleko na východě v zemi Indianů
pfft. As soon as the first subtitle said "Brother Zizka", I knew exactly how this battle would turn out xD
Well, spoiler alert - he is one of the few undefeated generals in history so.... :D
One-eyed Jan never lost. Spent all his time leading peasants against professional soldiers. He was really good.
@@edmadden2091 Well not exactly all his time - he lead troops, which were professional soldiers, from The Polish & Lithuatian commonwealth against the Teutonic Order in today's northern Poland. He wasn't the main strategist during this conflict but it definitely helped him gain much needed experience.
th-cam.com/video/Hgl77ZdyxvE/w-d-xo.html is a very high quality video depicting it in detail. They usually make some mistakes here and there but it's corrected in comments.
@@raiden1999 There isn't a single historical evidence for Zizka losing a battle.
No possible force could defeat such an epic moustache!
More realistic costume and armour than any modern movie about medieval times.
Thats why we love this movie
man i really miss the 90s.....these shows are so nostalgic and really brings you back in time, to a more peaceful time..
Lol this was filmed in 50s ans 60s
1958
@@tondarubes but they ran on the TV more often
This just looks so much better than nowadays movie battles.
Fun fact:
There has been an reenactment of this battle in 1920 in Prag going so awry that hundreds of ppl (and tens of horses) were injured. Numerous properties were damaged and the actors of the Hussites had to flee from the angry mob of the Crusaders.
Whats really nice to see is that at then ending scene you can see St. Vitus Cathedral, while being still under construction in 1950s, which underwent slightly longer than 6 hundred long constuction ... being finished in late 1950s
But no, that's the Tyn temple under construction in the old town square.
Thank you! They sure don't make 'em like they used to...
Gotta love these old movies: No CGI all real actors and masses of them. Neat costumes and no exxageration of blood and gore. Random deaths for no good reasons included XD.
The milita of sorts aren't using fancy tencniques and the ones who found swords use them in the most human way without edge alignment training or armoured combat experience
No plate armour cut clean in two, people get dropped by broken bones or general shock, I think some get up
The only other modern film show ive seen that does it properly is The King.
They do the Battle of Agincourt in it, and theres no excessive gore, and knight-on-knight combat is done fairly realistically.
Love the costumes. We are not able to make such historical movies anymore. Even though they are older, they are impressive. I'm annoyed by today's Hollywood portrayal of Middle Age period movies.
Last good one was the Outlaw King
Other thing: regardless of their origin hussites were very experienced, high value WARRIORS, the best in central and eastern Europe
Velkolepé! Škoda, že to nevyšlo i 1620 na Bílé hoře...
Asi tam chýbal ten oný, Žižka? :D
@@Bynk333 V tomto prípade to bolo skôr vojenské šťastie... Lebo spočiatku to vyzeralo pre cisárskych dosť zle...
What an amazing man Zizka is. Truly one of the greats.
Jan Zizka, Sigismund, Bayezid the thunderbolt and Timur the lame lived in the same time period.
Jan Zizka from Trocnov, reputation: "The one whom no mortal hand could destroy was extinguished by the finger of God."
waiting for Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 brought me here
Jan Žižka pravý vojevůdce a hrdina českého národa jsem hrdý na to že jsem Čech a že bydlím kousek od Tábora města kde Jan Žižka byl
Im Serbian i Can understand some words !!!
the film is professionally well made, it is influenced by the communist propaganda of the time that the Hussite revolution, which lasted a short time, was strongly progressive. The Paris Commune had a similar rating. Today, we have a different view of the history of that time. (birth 1952)
love Czechs, greeting from Lithuania our brothers
Young Jan Zizka fought in Battle of Grunwald on the side of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. His experience from that war helped him in his later career.
Greetings from Czechia, long live Lithuania and all our Baltic brothers!
@@abalayn22 yes, Žižka helped Lithuanian Grand Duchy then. Also my surname has "č" and "š" letters, which was invented by Jan Hus. Same person that influenced Rise of Protestantism and Rise our civilization. Not mentioning how great Czech resisted against Soviets and now supports Ukraine. Czech is one of the most beautiful, smart, strong and intelligent nations in the world.
@@primkup God bless Czech nation. Most beautiful, smart and strong people in the world.
@@tomascc9367 Don't be ridiculous. We are all just men. We all have flaws. Czechs are as flawed as any other. History is history. All we can do is strive to be honest and do our best in our own time on this Earth.
6:40 this is the most realistic battle scene i have ever seen
In her book 'The Great Controversy' E G White, in the chapter No.6 Two Heroes Face Death, referring to Huss and Jerome, ends the chapter on the Hussite wars. What an incredible chapter in the history of Bohemia. Huss, an absolute legend of a reformer, who stood up to the might of Catholic Europe, Jerome, who followed him soon after, Ziska and Procopius. I'm from Australia and had the pleasure of visiting the very spot where Huss and Jerome were martyred for their faith. She quotes J A Wylie and how a mysterious fear fell upon the crusaders who turned and fled. Instead of the war impovershing Bohemia, it enriched it, as the Hussites took the booty of the enemy.
When Christ returns and makes all these anew, I will meet this two heroes, these reformers, and the rest of the Bohemians who were martyred after. But not yet...not yet.
I know I shouldn't laugh, I know I shouldn't laugh, but man, the czech language is a funny language.
And the scene itself is well done. The hussite tactis is shown perfectly. And Zizka himself looks like he just went from Grunwald a few years earlier.
Altough is that me or were there much more than 60 pesants ?
No rocks were harmed during the making of these scenes.
Jan Zizka amazing warrior of medieval Cech land.
This was great!
The city Tábor, which was founded by Hussites in 1420, still exists.
These lines of dialogue at the end were superb:
general: Your majesty, I led the line according to the rules
king: And that blind man kicked it, unleashed dirty peasants with flails on you, and now the line and rules are broken!
general: Fear fell upon our army. That's what helped the heretics!
King: And why didn't it fall on them? They sing while attacking and dying, and you flee. They chase you like a herd. What a disgrace before all christendom.
They really are a coward, which is understandable because us humans want to live
Even there were a few injuries during these scenes, but no horse have been killed :-) Anyway the budget of the movie was half a Billion Czech crowns, which was approx. 23 milion Dollars - in 1956 !!!For example the Ben Hur movie was only 15 million Dollars... 🤯
maaaaan old medieval battle scenes were something awesome to be fairly honest...
for who doesn't know. Gen.Zizka never lost even a single battle in an entire of his life.
Probably just Communist Propaganda :)
1956 wow some good stuff right here
This is better then anything the cgi obsessed Hollywood can do
Time to get my Miniart 1:72 Hussite Wars figures into action again.
Si señor, yo acavo de montar la fortaleza y el castillo miniart y pienso recrear alguna batalla o asedio👍
wow, the horsemanship of these guys is amazing!!
Didn't know the movie looked so good, gotta watch it now! All I knew was my mother telling me there was propaganda in it, so I didn't pay it any attention lol
Great scenes. Cavalary charge at the fort has me scratching my head tho
Glad you like it. I think the knights only used horses to get closer to the fort faster in armor. While the Hussites shot their horses, the knights dismounted and attempted to cross the battlements on foot. :)
The Battle of Vitkov Hill: 8000 cav versus 130 /250 mens (50 archers + soldiers) into a forteress.
Wow,60 peasants against 8000 knights , impressive
Интерстно, польские исторические фильмы Крестоносцы и т.д. показывали в Союзе, а эту трилогию я не видел!
Something tells me that the reason the war in which this battle took place happened was due to royals and nobles treating the common folk badly, right?
Something along those lines, the Hussite wars was mainly a war over religious reforms because Bohemians didn't like how corrupt the church had become
Not entirely. Hussite wars were primarily religious wars. There was "dispute" between Catholics and new Christian movement inspired by John Wycliffe called Ultraquism or Calixtinism. In simplified terms, this dispute escalated into the conflict known as the Hussite Wars
If the Catholic Church hadn’t been so corrupt doing bad things to good people, Christian or nonchristians, Christianity wouldn’t have been hated so much.
Not really. The main reason behind the Hussite wars was... quite the opposite. Hussites were a movement of all people, some poor, some rich, some aristocrats. The previous king even agreed with many of their ideas. I will try to explain it a bit:
The peasants in Bohemia didn't suffer the plague, black death, like in the rest of Europe. So in the second half of the 1300s, many Bohemians left to work in the rest of Europe, which highly increased the amount of land available to those remaining and increased also wages. They were living pretty good lives. The reason why Prague is so popular tourist spot is because a huge part of the city center is in one grand architectonic style as it was built in the mid-to-late 1300s. Life was pretty good.
At the same time, the University of Prague started operating (the only in central Europe, it was the only one west from Paris and North from the Alps) and new ideas started spreading. One of the scholars, later rector of the university, was Jan Hus, follower of Jonh Wickliffe. He criticized the church as an organizations and called for a reform. By the way a century later a German scholar Martin Luther read about him and got inspired, calling Hus a truly holy man who was right about the church. Unlike Luther, Hus was taken captive by the church, tortured and burned alive. At that time he had many followers from all layers of the society. They started calling themselves Husite (Hussites) and they lived by his ideas.
Hus preached a version of christianity based on the bible, not on the authority of the popes (there were several popes fighting each other at that time). He believed in the truth, the word of god, in living a life of harmony, honesty and without unreasonable luxury. He was even friend of the king. The teaching became very popular probably because in the times the church couldn't offer much, they were just collecting money, selling indulgences and using it for fighting against other parts of the church.
The Hussites wanted to start their own settlement tolive by their rules, but the church called a crusade against them and the crusaders tried to massacre them. At that time, Zizka took charge of the Hussites and managed to win against insane odds. Effectively ending the middle ages mounted knight superiority on the battlefield by utilizing guns and war wagons. Also, the hussites were deeply religious people who knew they have no other chance than fight as their enemies want to massacre them no matter what. So when the cavalry charged against them, they didn't run away, but held the pikes and stood their ground, which made it impossible for the crusaders to break the Hussite lines.
Only partly. The biggest reason were the religious differences caused by the Papal Schism and execution of Jan Hus, a very popular Czech preacher.
Also, king Sigismund of Hungary was very much disliked among the population, so his inheritance of the Bohemian Crown was a final straw for many.
Core of the Hussites were indeed the peasants and commoners, but they had also plenty of lesser nobles (including Jan Žižka himself) and even some significant noble supporters. It is also worth the mention that the Hussites had multiple different factions, some of them even fought against each other, but they usually united during the foreign invasions.
5:10 Someone might think that this scene is overly pathetic, but it is based on a historically documented anecdote.
its better than modern Žižka
Wow.....never seen so may people killed by what looks like giant fly swats.
The flail was used for ‘threshing’ crops.Extremely potent weapon in experienced hands.
Never underestimate a rolled up newspaper as well...
Lethal against a field of wheat...and of course absolutely the weapon of dread for armoured men at arms & knights!!!!!!
From which Movie 🎥 is this Clip 🎥 ?
It's in the description, "Against All", 1956.
Hussites were the most bad ass god warriors of all time, leaded for the best General of all time Ian Zizka... Even Gengis KHAN loose battle. Ian zizka win all his combats.
Why is cavalry attacking fortifications?
Its historical fact, in real Vitkov inst fortification on prime, its only wood fence and one wooden tower on little hill, army of crusade (Zigismund) have 8/1 Cavalry (because prestige of highest knights) and they think "chalice army" just start fleeying by watch his power of army, but thats never happen and thats it, spirit and bad leadership of crusade army make heroes from peasants.
Cause they run out of artilery! :D
That is the core of why Hussites managed to defeat 5 crusades against them.
Crusaders were tied by chivalric code of conduct. By wasting day or two to set up artilery and blow that little fort to pieces, they would lose their face. They would lose their honor. It would be as if they were admiting that few dozens soldiers in small tiny fort is too much for their huge army.
Hussites did not bother with any such restrictions or rules of engagement - mostly because they were constantly outnumbered and outequiped - because they were kinda desperate to survive in first place. To paraphrase supposed quote from that time: "If the honorable knights think it is fair to face us with all their horses and armor and numerical advantage, I do not think I want to fight like a honorable knight"
That's how the French felt on a few occasions lol
atleast not against under equiped peasants
Yes indeed on several occasions. But for the most part it wasn't easy against them. Back then, the French were feared. And that is why the English value so much each of their valiant achievements, above them.
and your lovely Brits, ... in the Boer war ....
Well, the same emperor Sigismund has seen impetuous charge of French knights into poorly reconnoitered Turkish army at Nicopolis, who first rampaged through untrained Turkish infantry to be overwhelmed by unexpected Sipahi attack.
He should have known better 24 years later.
Cringe french white flag american joke. France has always been a nation of warriors and knights, especially in medieval times, it was a military superpower. Try to insult the soldiers who died at verdun coward
Peasants not wearing armor versus the strongest military in the world from history what is the big battle for the peasants even though they had coats
Idolized Zizka was also thug for hire. He is the only general who never lost a battle. Guy was genius.
Only 100 horses were injured in the making this film.
That's some farmer's strength.
is this the same battle as in the video game kingdom come deliverance ?
no, kcd 1 is shortly before jan hus died and the wars started. maybe kcd 3 will have the hussite wars.
@@amonglagamingirony4380 Ohh ok thx
See the Battle of the golden spurs in 1302 in Kortrijk.
Man this is like a Monty python movie. No blood guys with long sticks beating armored knights to funny.
Was not funny when it happened in real life. The peasants did not use long sticks, but flails with spikes. Very deadly. The peasants were skilled in using them as they used regular flails to thresh grain for most of their lives.
It's 1950's Czechoslovakia. There was likely no harm insurace for anyone messing in that meleé.
Well you should watch India and China clash in border with stone and sticks a bit similar.
@@danroocHealth care was free for all in Czechoslovakia at that time, just as it is now in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Health care does not equal to insurance.
of course they won it was all Henrys from Kingdom come Deliverance
haha!
Ok, who the feck gave the order for a uphill cavalry charge head on against an entrenched and heavily manned defensive structure in the shadow of large manned stone walls? 3 guys and their dog could of held off an attack like that if this was their level of tactical acumen…
The battle was led by the famous Italian general Filippo Scollari, nicknamed Pippo Spano. That's the redhead with the gold-lined armor, on the white horse, with the red harness. (That herald named him when he announced the news to the king). The attack itself was led by the Meissen Governor Heinrich of Isenburg, who fell there during the conquest of the third trench in front of the wall built of clay and stone around two log cabins. The attackers used those horses for fast transportation and for the effect of intimidating the people of Prague. Of course, they attacked the fortified cabins on foot. The mistake was sending an excessive force of up to 8 thousand horsemen, so they began to crowd in front of the fortifications on the hill. Every newly minted knight and his people longed for glory, but pride precedes a fall!
And "heavily stocked" log cabins? Yeah, but only in the movie. According to historical records, only 29 people, including three women, were occupied in those fortified cabins! They quickly ran out of arrows and howitzer powder. "They defended themselves valiantly with stones and voulges." Allegedly, Žižka himself almost fell there, after being pulled from a low wall into a ditch.
And allegedly, at that very moment, a counterattack from the city struck from the southern slope, consisting of 50 crossbowmen and several hundred unarmored flailmen. They were led by a priest carrying the sacrament of Christ's body. "And when the enemies saw the sacrament and heard the ringing of the bell and the loud cry of the people, seized with great fear they fled and fled very quickly, wanting to outrun each other in running. And unable to hold their own against this attack, many fell from a high rock and broke their neck, many were slain by the pursuers, so that in the course of a single hour nearly three hundred were slain, and others mortally wounded and carried off." Vavřinec of Březová a Hussite man of letters and a direct participant in the Hussite Wars.
So much and more at: cs.wikipedia
Have a nice day!
They were forcing themselves across the middle wall. You can clearly see them forcing themselves across. Say what you like, but 60 against 8k, even in that sort of position, wouldnt have won the day. It was only the timely intervention of the flailmen on the flank that saved the fort.
Bruh, you would send your 8000 zerglings against their 60 marines in a hearbeat. The Crusaders did nothing wrong. They were just outmaneuvered.
@Conan_the_Based nah you wouldn't cuz that's dumb. 8,000 men against 60 men in a fortification is dumb choice choice sent all 8,000 men at once. That's dog piling your men preventing maneuverability and room to move. Also disrupts chain of command and discipline. Even more so these idiots rode their horses to the walls when you aren't supposed to do that unless your dismounting which barely any of them did.
@@koreancowboy42 The reason there were 3000 (not 8000) was to secure the river crossing on both banks from any counterattack from the city, he had like 20 000 on the other bank. Main reason this fort attack and subsequent planned encirclement of the city was unsuccesful is fear factor. Hussites had pretty gruesome reputation and on multiple occasions and multiple battles crusading forces were routed only by their mere presence and singing. Sigismund, the crusaders leader, underestimated this severely.
Žižka was a GIGA CHAD
This battle reminds me of the battle of Stable Hill in The Chronicles of Narnia the Last Battle.
It was a deadly mistake to burn alive Jan Hus at the stake, despite the promise of free passage.
Those Crusaders never learned how to shoot the bow and arrow or crossbow!
Not very useful weapons to storm a fortress. Trebuchets might have been a better option.
Can someone give me the names of movies like this, cuz in Poland we have very similar movies, don't need eng sub, I understand your language in 75% anyway, dziękuję bardzo
Jan Žižka, proti všem, spanilá jízda, dny zrady etc.
CZECH : Jan Hus, Jan Žižka, Jan Roháč z Dubé, Proti všem, Jan Sladký Kozina... SLOVAKIAN : Jánošík
.. I like your Polish : Křížáci, Potopa, Ogniem i miečem , pan Michail Wolodiovsky
@@tiborwot3753 dziękuję bardzo
@@bohuslavaprochazkova415 Tak, też je lubię, dlatego bardzo spodobało mi się jak wygląda ten film, bardzo podobny do krzyżaków
Jan Hus, Jan Žižka, Proti všem.
Communist authorities in Eastern countries did much to support local nationalisms, particularly through big-budget films.
Two objectives:
1) Make the inhabitants believe that they were led by uncompromising patriots and therefore make them forget that they were subject to the Soviets who occupied the country.
2) Present the people in general and the peasants in particular as heroic figures oppressed by the aristocrats, the clergy or the Germans.
These films, which are sometimes excellent, have done a lot to reinforce the vision that these people have of their own past, sometimes with blatant anachronisms and biases.
Jivkov in Bulgaria, Gomulka in Poland, Kadar in Hungary and Ceaucescu in Romania used this method a lot
Shadowing 1938 Eisenstein's "Alexandr Nevsky".
Do not feel ashamed for your stupidity it is okaydude. This is an CENTRAL European country. Remember it for the 2nd time, okay? :-)
Nowadays movies are crap so...
Weird, I didn't see only 60 peasants. Only 2 armies face to face. An old movie.
That's a historical fact. At the time & place only some 60 peasans & low nobility successfully defended against the Sigismud Emperor's elite forces with help of very modest fortifications (and more than half of them died there if I remeber well). Their fierce defence was the key to win the battle that is very well described here:
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@@zlatanclovecic1944 Ok I didn(t know. Thanks
@@Diogene-pl1lq No problem, you're welcome 🙂
The leadership behind the templars is a different way for hospitallers The principal of Anoth wrote it if I wrote it wrong
That Medieval movie utterly disappointing this is more like it
Kalich vždy zvítazí nad krížom.... Alebo kosák a kladivo.... :D
A blow from a flail was not the love tap as portrayed in the movie.
Interesting! AND they turned on each other, killed and betrayed each other. Still being Cornish I always barrick for the peasants.
Crusaders? This battle occured like 300 years after the crusades.
what do you mean by "the crusades"? there were five anti hussite crusades, none of them successful.
@3:04, The PENGUINS! THE PENGUINS!! RETREAT!!
60 what? Sorry, but "peasant" is a term of propaganda, and it far from truth even concerning the social origin. In reality those men were: low rank nobles, some priests, citizens of the czech towns and cities, and of course some peasants. That concerning their origin
That's true Hussites had even military "tutorial" manuals, building town's such as Tábor Wich needed professional workers , stone mason's, locators, etc... The peasant view was made mostly by communist propaganda, Hussites in the end of 15th century was actually a professionali equiped (looking at szlacht von wenzenbach).
it's communist film what do you expect?!!!
@@cinemacats7543 😊I 've just stated some things for a special category of users😊. Nothing more. Of course I have no expectation from any mine of movie and any kind of propaganda😊I'm to old for any kind of expectation😊
@@cinemacats7543 expect some LGBTQ, just like from amazing West
Jaki jest tytuł…?
Proti všem.(Gegen allen)
(Against everyone)
Proti všem.(Česky).
7:11 is the guy ok😅
ah the old trick of using cavalry against a fortress wall, who says bad writing is a modern problem
That really happened, in 1420.
bad tactics is a historical problem with forces believing in their own superiority
Jan Hus was a wonderful man of God, who held to God's Word, the Bible. Rome, as usual, tried anything it could to silence God's Word, but failed yet again.