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 PostráneckýNot listed | Not listed |
 Miroslav DonutilNot listed | Not listed |
 František NěmecNot listed | Not listed |
 Ondřej VetchýNot listed | Not listed |
 Václav VydraNot listed | Not listed |
 Oldřich VíznerNot listed | Not listed |
 Jan KrausNot listed | Not listed |
 Karel HlušičkaNot listed | Not listed |
 Lenka SkopalováNot listed | Not listed |
 Eva JakoubkováNot listed | Not listed |
 Rudolf HrušínskýNot listed | Not listed |
 Josef KemrNot listed | Not listed |
 Jan KačerNot listed | Not listed |
 Jan VlasákNot listed | Not listed |
 Jana ŠtěpánkováNot listed | Not listed |
 Eduard CupákNot listed | Not listed |
 Ladislav FrejNot listed | Not listed |
 Alois ŠvehlíkNot listed | Not listed |
 Václav KotvaNot listed | Not listed |
| GGaston ŠubertNot listed | Not listed |
 Jiří HavelNot listed | Not listed |
 Petr MeisselNot listed | Not listed |