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The third part of the Hussite Revolutionary Trilogy

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The Hussite revolutionary movement has seized the whole country.

Prague bourgeoisie, although seeing King Zikmund as their enemy,

are also fearful of the revolutionary poor.

In response, the centre of movement shifted to South Bohemia

where there is no private ownership but everything is owned equally.

A community of the chosen was established

to fight for a new just order against all the enemies.

Stop, in God's name, I can't go further.

Father Prior, stop!

Such an innocent soul and must suffer so.

May Hus and Jeronym burn in eternal fire! And they with them!

May they burn in resin and sulphur. In a river of fire!

Be quiet, unless he escape or try to cripple the horse

like the first one.

That's just why we have to frighten him.

I'll watch the road.

May Hus burn most. He is to blame for this suffering.

What this Tabor scum did to the monastery! Those robes and vessels!

Jesus Christ! Oh!

Serving mass in barns and even on a log of wood.

And when you die burying you in the woods like a dog, the scoundrels,

without consecration.

You'd bury me the same way if I didn't have money for the priest.

Silence! Blasphemer! You're the same as them.

Isn't it true? You know how the serfs feared our Provost.

How strict he was. He never spared anyone even an hour's labour.

You're possessed, like them. May you also burn.

You only screech of hell.

Aren't they behind us?

No. We've given them wide berth.

They're somewhere burning churches and vicarages. But here it's quiet.

Get up! To the horses! Quick! We must get away!

The Taborites! It's them!

Father, do not abandon me here.

The horses! Quick! Why don't you move?

I won't go a step further.

That's my horse!

Go to our court and you'll get two for it.

Christ is worth the suffering.

He promises a hundred times more.

Who lays down his life for him

will have eternal life.

Joy to all who live in truth.

Joy to all who live in truth.

Live in the revealed truth, which conquers all

and rules for eternity. Written in prison, in manacles.

Already on the edge of this life, awaiting a terrible, imminent death,

I see no heresy inside me, when with all my heart I profess the truth.

Those are the last words and warnings of our Master Jan Hus.

Remember how the Tabor priest Jan Bydlinsky

encouraged us at the last gathering.

If we want to protect and stand firm by Hus' teaching, words aren't enough.

We didn't take our oath in vain. Now is the time for action!

Two men have come, they help a woman from a horse.

Has she fainted? Yes, she's fainted!

God be with you. Let us rest a while, please,

until the lady recovers. And a little water, please.

Put her upstairs.

Go tend their horses. - Thank you.

Come in, sir.

A nun. A novice.

And the one downstairs... Margeta, has the master returned?

Not yet. - Go for him.

Master, guests have arrived. And what guests! Priests!

And a nun. Who's fainted!

Uncle, we have guests. You know who? The older one is asleep.

You're a priest.

Provost of Lounovice Monastery. We want to Pribenice.

But the young sister fell ill upon the way.

She's of gentle birth. Niece of the Pribenice burgrave.

And how did you get here?

God has sent an hour of trials. The Taborites burnt our monastery.

You are surprised? Why did you burn Master Jan Hus?

Our Taborite brothers burnt down the Lounovice Monastery.

Now they are at Bukovsko. They've captured Rozmberk's castle.

And now they come to us!

The Tabor brothers! Coming to free us from bondage!

Priests travel with them. - There are three of them.

One is blind. - What do they preach?

The world is depraved and sinful. God will destroy it.

Only the saved will live. Tabor!

It's the end of the Rozmberks. Let's join the brothers!

Neighbours! Lord! No, no lords...

Brother... brothers! In the name of the love of Christ,

I will set fire to my house and go with brothers to Tabor.

And whoever doesn't wish to die from God's hand, come too.

And you, father? Will you decide?

Don't deny holy truth. Come with them.

Brothers, I burn, burn! I burn, burn!

Who are the priests?

The blind one is Mikulas and with him are Kanis and Bydlinsky.

Jan Bydlinsky.

...burn what is yours, for nothing will remain.

Nothing, nothing! Only Tabor!

What is this lunacy? They'll burn down the whole village.

Call the steward!

Don't think of worldly goods. Did you not hear?

The Taborites call to arms, people believe and flock to them.

Did those priests take away your reason at the gatherings too?

You didn't miss one. You took people there even work was to be done.

For the preaching you neglect your duties.

You've become a fanatic. Just like your late mother.

Quiet! Don't speak ill of the dead.

You always treated her badly and thoughtlessly.

She used to cry in secret and lie awake at night.

What do you know of her, or me?

You married me to a rake, who drank himself to death.

Isn't it enough you shortened her life and condemned me to unhappiness?

Repent, before God punishes you!

Now go and look after the papists.

When the Taborites learn that they were here they'll burn down the house!

They're not here yet, the monk and this sick woman are guests

in my house. This court is mine, and I am master here.

No-one should be afraid to burn. No-one should own anything,

and one who does sins mortally!

Open, it is me, Ctibor of Hvozdno!

How is the lady? - A little better.

The rest did her good. By evening she'll have recovered.

You can't stay here long. People might learn about you,

it would be bad. Leave now and be on your way.

Who knows what may happen. I'll prepare you a horse and cart.

Thank you, sir. - You are welcome.

My kinsman will take you part of the way.

Deo gratias! Deo gratias!

Ultraquist, and yet they accompany us. Who would have thought it.

Sister Marta, we'll soon be at Pribenice. Can you make it?

Oh, I'll make it.

Hurry! Each moment is precious.

If only we were already at my uncle's.

Don't tarry, be gone. The cart is ready.

God bless you, and if the times change...

No, Provost. God willing, the times won't change as you wish.

Think about it, Lord Ctibor.

In Vratislav they raised the cross against all the Czech heretics.

Emperor Zikmund himself leads them. They'll come at any time

and will destroy everything and all who profess the chalice.

But our people are ready to defend the holy truth with their lives.

There will be a war. Against our own, against foreigners, against all!

Yes. Against all!

Are you all right, lady?

May God bless you.

Lord, hand over the monks!

Burn them! To the stake!

They burnt our holy Master!

Lord, let us in!

You shelter the papists! Enemies of God and Tabor! Hand them over!

I cannot. They asked me for help.

They have an ill lady with them. That's why I took them in.

Spare your mercy! They'd do naught for us but send us to the scaffold!

We'll catch these bloody priests elsewhere and throw them in the fire!

Come with us, lady.

I'm not a lady. We are sisters.

Zdena.

Zdena!

Zdena!

Halt! Who goes there?

Bydlinsky. - What is happening?

What of the Rozmberks?

Nothing. Not a trace. We searched the whole region.

So they don't stop our journey. Our lord consorts with Roman priests.

He gives them a shelter.

I don't believe. I know Lord Ctibor from our gatherings.

We should send a troop to Hvozdno.

Not now. Early morning we must make haste to Tabor.

Tabor. Tabor.

Tabor.

The town of the saved.

Where are you from? - From Hvozdno. I'm Simon.

I freed myself from mammon. I burnt everything I own.

You come as an equal among equals.

Welcome, sister. What of Ctibor, your father? Comes he too?

I begged him to do so.

Does he know you are here?

He does now.

He will surely come too.

This is everything I have.

Brothers and sisters! The elders will take you

to places where you can build homes.

Those who work with stone, let them help with the fortifications.

Smiths and sword makers will furnish weapons.

Smiths and sword makers, follow me!

Carpenters! - Bricklayers!

Give me a sword! I want to fight them!

God willing, we'll all fight, brother!

I don't want to work.

You won't to build our town?

Why? The world will soon pass.

Yes, brother. But here in Tabor will start a new age.

Ajust world.

If it carries on like this we will all be annihilated.

Heard you what an army the Emperor has invaded the country with?

Please go and speak with him and... - And then?

The Emperor will attack Prague. You Sir, at the same time,

will attack the fort of Tabor.

And they will not be able to come to each other's aid.

That's true.

But alone? Without support?

You are powerful enough.

Provost, I shall punish these peasants in their fort.

But who will benefit most from this? Your monastery.

And who will bear the cost? - We are poor.

They burnt our monastery.

But if you wish, I shall ask His Highness the Emperor for help.

You will go to him?

Immediately, to catch him in Kutna Hora.

What I need most from the Emperor

he doesn't have to give. Money.

How am I to afford an army?

I have wages to pay, my cellars are almost empty.

If you were to reach into those coffers you sent me for safekeeping.

You are a good son of the Church, I too. If necessary,

we will give what is left us, as from a beggar's purse.

But remember, this also affects you, all of you, the aristocracy.

The heretics also want your estates.

I see, venerable father, that we understand each other well.

My people shall accompany you.

Tell the King how this action on his and your behalf will impoverish me.

Tell him that without his aid and guarantee I cannot undertake this.

Why do you block our path?

Who are you?

Ctibor of Hvozdno. And who you?

The guard of Prince Oldrich of Rozmberk. Where do you go?

That is not your concern!

Your Excellency...

Come closer.

Unharness the horses!

Don't you know me, Lord Ctibor?

Is it you, Provost? I didn't recognise you in these clothes.

Are you going to Tabor?

The whole court. And you?

To Kutna Hora. Lord Ctibor, go back.

You won't let us pass?

The Holy Father orders the Czech land to be purged of heresy.

Zikmund purifies with blood and fire, dispraising Czechs everywhere.

And yet the lords go over to him. All of them. And ask for his aid.

Prince of Rozmberk also joins him, don't you know?

He limps in body, he will also limp in soul.

Crusaders from all lands are on their way here, they will fall on you.

Then you won't be afraid to travel in your priest's robes.

And why do you tell me this? - So you see sense and go back.

I go to Tabor and will fight to the death all the enemies,

foreigners and the Czechs who join them to destroy us.

Let them pass! Make a way!

Listen, Wartenberk has betrayed Praguers.

I have the news direct from Prague. He has given up the Castle to Zikmund.

Is this possible? - The traitor!

Now Prague will have two royal armies over the city,

at Vysehrad and also at the Castle. - That traitor Wartenberk!

And after all that the Praguers parley a truce with the royalists.

They send a message to Zikmund.

To beg! Humbly to beg!

Those Prague scholars! Learned Masters!

Just to defend their priestly surplices and vestments!

Their easy livings!

That's the real heresy! Surplices and vestments!

And they wanted to instruct us in matters of faith!

Brother Kanis, Bydlinsky, and you, priests, why do we bicker?

Why are we here? To quarrel in vain, or enter into just war?

An army can't have discord and rows. They should be strictly punished.

And you should cease these quarrels.

But we will not suppress our conscience!

And who does, Kanis? Enough of your disputes!

Brothers, know that the young Rozmberk has joined Zikmund.

He's preparing to strike us in the back. - Who told you this?

Provost of Lounovice. He was with Rozmberk.

That's just like Rozmberk. I believe it.

He's trying to squeeze money from the King.

And would take our coffers as well. Peasant money would smell him fine.

You harboured the monk in your home.

Are we not Christians?

Provost revealed the Prince's will. He wanted to frighten me.

Let him and the crusaders come. We are not afraid!

It'll be a heavy test for us. We've only begun to build defences.

That Antichrist will taste God's vengeance. God will come to our aid!

God will be with us if we help each other.

Priests, now is your time. We have to gather people from all the sides.

Tell the people the Antichrist comes with destroyers of the Czech lands.

They must be alert at all times. - Yes! Yes!

Bring the crops from the villages, drive the livestock into the town

so we can withstand the siege. We're going to check the defences.

They must be built day and night before the enemy attacks.

Come, brothers.

I bring my nephew Ondrej. He's trained in horsemanship.

Welcome, boy. Go and report to sheriff Kunes.

And take this, it's all the money I've received

for my court and estate. Take it to the coffers.

Woe on them who established bad laws,

who banished the needy from the courts and exploited the poor

to plunder and rob them.

The day of the Lord is coming and with it His burning anger.

Read, we didn't want to disturb you.

We came to visit the brothers. - You're very dedicated.

Have you spoken to your father? - We met in the camp.

My father's here? So, he decided to come after all.

He sides with Zizka. Passionately.

You've chosen well.

The sick like to listen.

Aren't you homesick?

I'm happy here.

I must go to villages and call everyone to arms. We're in danger.

Farewell.

I wish you success.

God be with you, sister. And come to our gathering.

Welcome! Father!

Why were the priests here?

They came to visit the sick.

Do they come often? - I don't know. I'm not here long.

Be careful of them. They only stoke up discord.

Are you tending the sick? - They need me.

Did you bring some linen or garments? The situation here is terrible.

The sick suffer so, and it will be worse when they bring the wounded.

Ondrej will bring you what we have. Now we must look for shelter.

You will stay with us. - Yes, father.

After the reckoning those who gave all for the liberation of truth

will enter a time when there will be no ill will or a sin.

Only those good will remain.

From then until judgement day no-one will die in body.

In that real kingdom, dear brothers and sisters,

there will be no suffering, all sorrow will cease.

Women will give birth without any pain, all will be equally pure,

there'll be no need for marriage and men and women

will live together, all will be free sons and daughters of God.

To the pit! Heretics! Throw them in the pit!

All the Czechs are heretics!

To hell with all Czech heretics!

Mary!

Let me! She will pay!

I want God's greater grace! You wanted to go to Tabor. Here's the pit Tabor!

Bravo!

To hell with all Czech heretics!

Worse than animals. - Swine!

Quiet! Heretics also murder and burn.

But they don't murder women and children.

Do you pity them? - She's not from Kutna Hora!

She's certainly a heretic!

They sent her from Tabor! She's a spy!

Yes! Where are you from? Who are you?

I sell ribbons. I'm only a ribbon seller.

From where? - From the town of Klatovy.

That's near their fort! - She's a heretic!

To the pit with her!

To the pit with her! - The heretic! Don't let her go!

Ask this burgess, I sold ribbons to his wife and daughters

to welcome the King!

She pitied them, the heretic! To the pit with her!

Make the way!

Stay between our horses!

Now you're safe. Go.

Thank you, sir. Thank you, thank you...

And what if she goes to Tabor and tells what she has seen?

Let her. I'd go there too after what I've witnessed here.

I've heard how distressed you are. But you worry too much, Provost.

The peasants won't be such a trouble. The mistake was at the beginning.

Prince Oldrich should have forced these heretics to obey through fear.

He shouldn't have hanged them then, and now he can't at all.

Let him punish them in secret. Kill or drown anyone he seizes.

All now run away to the fort, to their new town.

Prince of Rozmberk must deal with them himself.

He offers your Highness his service. But he asks your help.

We'll be glad of his service but we'll give him no money.

Let him first prove his loyalty.

Let him prepare his army against those scoundrels in Tabor.

Then we'll help him, as it is in our power.

Highness, the Lord of Dube and Lord Lefl of Lazan

ask you to accept a message from the people of Prague.

The Prague delegation is here to beg. Your countrymen. What do you say?

Highness, first you must destroy the heresy without mercy.

Otherwise this devil's seed will grow out of control.

What is it?

The guests are assembling. The dancing is beginning.

Many beautiful ladies will be here.

I'm coming, I'm coming.

Let the Praguers wait. Or leave it till tomorrow.

I and Lord Lefl have spoken on your behalf with the Emperor,

but he is very angry. He has Vysehrad and the castle of Saint Vaclav.

You're powerless and against Tabor he'll have Prince of Rozmberk.

Would you make a deal in his place?

And the meaning of this?

You're not children. Judge for yourselves. And don't forget

that the rabble under Zelivsky hold the New Town.

You should lower your demands and be humble.

Won't that be worse? Won't the King want revenge?

Won't he want us to renounce the chalice?

So many foreigners.

Come forward.

Highness, I present the delegation from Prague and the university.

May it please your Highness to grant them an audience.

On behalf of Prague and the university

we beg your Royal Highness to accept these gifts.

We greet your Highness as a brother of the dead King Vaclav

and as his heir. We urgently entreat that you help us and the kingdom

to avert the terrible disgrace of heresy and rebellion.

You are to blame for this! Who threw the Germans out of Prague

and the faithful sons of the Holy Church? You!

What else is it than a heretical uprising against authority?

Your Royal Highness,

in order to purge the nation and Czech Kingdom, Prague and those

of loyal Czechs have adopted a series of articles that

we are authorised to present to you for your consideration and approval.

First: Freedom of confession.

Second: To receive from the chalice.

Third: Dispossession of the estates and the end of priests' temporal power.

Fourth... - Enough!

I know your articles. First give up all your weapons.

Remove chains and turnpikes from the streets, call back German patriarchs

and exiled priests and return to them their offices and property.

Only then will I negotiate with you. I don't negotiate with heretics!

By God, I promise to annihilate all the heretics from the earth

like the worst enemies!

Make up your mind quickly, before we arrive with our army.

After that it'll be too late.

Pipo Spano, the Holy Father and the Emperor expect you to win your fame.

Should we give up to such ignominy?

This means the end of the chalice.

Let's go away from here, away!

How the foreigners enjoyed this! He invited them for that very purpose.

Let's leave! What can we gain here?

Let's go straight to Tabor and Pisek and everywhere we have

support and tell them the news.

I agree. There's no other way.

After today it's clear our very survival is at stake.

Let's go! - Come!

They didn't spare the old or women. I saw it with my own eyes!

And all this while Emperor feasted, revelled and danced, together

with Romish priests! And everywhere foreign troops, who destroy

villages and slaughter people, women after childbirth and with children.

They are the murderers!

They say they fled from Rozmberk!

They are spies!

Quiet! Quiet! Let them speak!

Rozmberk sent us with the Provost to the Emperor

to Kutna Hora. The army is there. Thousands of men!

We couldn't watch how they massacred people there!

They speak the truth! I saw them there. And they saved me!

They helped me escape from the crowd who wanted to kill me.

We want to fight with you against these murderous dogs.

In Kutna Hora we saw a delegation from Prague for the Emperor.

You see! They went to parley with that dragon who would kill us.

Treachery! And now they come here! They are at the sheriffs!

Shame! Cowards!

Kill the Praguers, imperial priests, all of them!

And burn Prague, that Babylon!

Zikmund threw us out and with us scorned all the Hussites.

Prague asks your help, you are our last hope.

God punished you for your perfidy.

You bartered with the enemy.

Three times you've turned with the wind!

We know that we've done wrong,

but if you don't help us then Prague is lost.

Tell the truth! You are more worried about your full coffers.

You wrong us. You think there are only rich merchants in Prague?

What of those thousands of poor, loyal brothers?

We rose up against the Pope and the King, just like you!

We don't doubt you, Jan Zelivsky.

Then leave with the faithful and come to us in Tabor.

Tabor is the town of the saved. Everything else will lie in ashes.

The end of the world is nigh!

Are you delirious, brothers? Do you think you alone

will withstand the Antichrist?

The Lord said: Come and build the walls of Jerusalem, and not:

Leave the town and go to Babylon to do battle!

Enough quarrels, brothers! You heard how the Emperor plans

our destruction. Rozmberk is ready to fight, crusaders already cross

the borders in thousands. And you quarrel about things

that have no reason. Brothers insult brothers.

Everyone must place own concerns below those of God and common!

Tabor cannot stand against Prague! Or do you want to help Zikmund?

Never! Never! We'd rather die!

Now we must fight together!

Should we leave our country without its head?

If Prague falls, all Bohemia falls.

I can't act against my conscience.

I'll call on the people not to abandon our holy town, not to obey you!

You undermine the order of our community!

By what right do you give orders? - By the right of our community!

Do not suppress freedom of conscience!

I'll punish quarrels and disorder! And you shall comply or...

Do you hear? We should all be equal here!

Yet we choose a ruler over us. And such a ruler!

Calm down, Kanis! - Today he leads you to Prague

for the sake of the merchants, later to the Emperor and the Pope!

And you will obey?

Quiet, you blasphemer! They should have exiled you long ago!

Today they exile us, tomorrow you! Brother against brother!

Who thinks the same?

We believe in you. - We believe in you! Everyone!

I don't wish to suppress conscience, but quarrels I will not tolerate.

They are our enemy like the crusaders, even worse.

Lead us, brother Zizka.

I shall lead you. But we must all be of one mind!

We promise. - Certainly, brother Zizka.

Father Koranda? - I am with you.

And you, Bydlinsky?

It's a dangerous time, you are the sheriffs.

We have a common enemy.

Therefore must have a discipline. Strong discipline.

I advise to leave for Prague's aid. Immediately, without delay,

so that we get there before the Emperor.

We shall go with you. - Everyone! We give our oath!

Brother Ctibor!

Come, brother, to the town so all can see our unity before the foreigners.

That is good.

To arms! To arms!

Brothers, hurry! To arms!

Return in one piece, boys.

If only we could go with them.

Brothers! Take me with you! Take me! Brother!

Brother! My arm is almost healed!

Stay, brothers! Do not go! Stay here in the hills!

Only here will you find salvation!

Sister, you will stay.

I want to go to battle!

Don't go! Everyone has gone mad.

Zizka and the Prague drapers have turned their minds! Prague is Babylon!

It should be burned and destroyed. And instead we are to defend it?

We march against the enemy! Against the Emperor!

Why do we have Tabor? Why do we build it?

And now the people leave to follow Zizka's will. We shall not go.

Not me, nor brother Bydlinsky.

Stay here.

You see, she is with us. She follows us.

You. - Me... who spoke?

She's not the first or the last I'll turn against this march.

Brother, be quiet. Quiet!

Sisters are ready for the march. Are you not coming?

I'm staying.

Why?

With the sick.

We will need you more.

There'll be fighting here as there. And we've gone up to the hills.

This is the chosen place in the time of tribulation.

Who put such words in your mouth? Zdena, be careful!

Be careful of those priests! Come with us.

Leave me here. I'm staying.

God be with you.

And with you too.

In the name of the Lord! Forward!

Those who are God's soldiers and follow His law,

ask God's aid and believe in Him,

with Him those will always win,

with Him those will always win.

Let the peasants march to support Prague.

The Emperor and crusaders will crush them all with the Praguers together.

And you Sir, will spread the rest of them like a chaff

right in their heretics' nest in Tabor.

But not without your gold.

When we win you'll get everything back twice over.

It's decided. Today the Prince of Rozmberk leaves for the battle

against Tabor. I'll go with him. He wants to kill every last one of them.

They're like the devil possessed. Everyone goes there. Our people also.

To Tabor, to those fanatics.

Lord of Hvozdno as well. He went there and sold his court.

Madmen. What do they want? To fraternise with yokels. Brothers!

They belch and smell of sour milk.

Fear not, I'll soon be back, our Prince will take their fort with ease.

May God punish them! - Uncle!

Don't leave me here alone. I'm afraid.

Take me with you.

To the battlefield?

My dearest, into such a danger?

Intercede on my behalf! I'd die here of anxiety.

The Provost and I will go as well. He may offer her his protection.

All right. Come with us. At least I'll worry less about you.

Tabor! Tabor! Welcome, brothers!

I've been looking for you. They told me where you'd gone.

News came to Tabor that Rozmberk's men are approaching.

That's why I came for you.

Thank you, brother, for looking after me.

Don't hurry, there's no danger here now.

Let's go.

Zdena, Father Abraham got married today.

At such a time?

And if I wanted to marry, if I came...

You won't do that at a time of such danger.

And if, when such time has passed,

if then I came to you, Zdena...

If it's not against God's law.

It'll be against the priestly law, but not God's law.

And if, when such time has passed,

if then I came to you, Zdena...

What news?

We came upon Rozmberk's guard!

The enemy is very strong, a massive force!

Look at them, the devils!

They're already here, and still more come.

With you I fear nothing, Jan.

They have surrounded us from all the sides.

The main army is taking up position on the plain.

An hour of truth has come, but also of revenge!

Lords, I drink to his Highness the Duke of Austria

and to Prince of Rozmberk, to the victory of their arms!

With fire and sword kill all the devil-possessed Taborites

and let them suffer the tortures of hell!

The devils will choke stuffing themselves on the heretics.

Here, friend, have a drink. To the victory.

To the victory!

Drink, brother...

To our victory!

How many of you are there?

Eight thousand. But others will come yet.

Coming is Duke Albrecht and his uncle Markgraf von Steyermark,

also many thousands. Great army! And Bischof von Passau as well.

They won't be needed, by then you'll have ground everyone to dust.

But they say the devil is with them. Is that the truth?

Yes, it is. The devil is with the Taborites, and they are with him.

That's why we must scatter them and trample. To burn the pagans!

For God's sake!

For days you fire at their defences. When will you attack?

And beat them, it's the worst for the devil!

Where is the Provost?

Drinking with Prince of Rozmberk and the Austrian lords.

Why are the Austrians here?

They came to our aid.

They'll annihilate the Taborites!

Foreigners all.

Come, let's not wait, they'll be there all night long.

Listen, Agneska, that young man from Hvozdno is there as well.

What'll happen to him?

Tomorrow, or the day after, Rozmberk will attack.

And no word from brother Zizka so far.

We can expect nothing from him.

I always warned you against him.

The roads are so well guarded by Zikmund's men,

that the brothers won't even get here.

Let's not wait and attack first, before the enemy is ready!

Impossible against such odds!

We must defend behind the fort.

I bring news! Brother Zizka has sent a cavalry to our aid!

We're on Rozmberk's tail.

The decisive moment is nigh, brothers! Fight like men.

Who lays down his life for truth will not die.

I can fight. My arm is healed. I will fight too!

God protect you.

Brother Zizka has sent help!

Upon fire from the battlements we charge the enemy!

You've come, Zdena?

I wanted to see you again.

Maybe for the last time.

Even if we die, you know, we are together forever.

I no longer fear death, with you...

Ours are shooting. That means our message got to Tabor.

To the horses! - To the horses! To the horses!

Enemy is here!

Tabor, forward!

Make way! Clear the way!

I am Provost of Lounovice! I'm going to the Prince!

What is it? Hopefully not an enemy!

Not the blasphemers?

What's happening?

Climb! And you too! Quickly!

Tabor ahead! Tabor!

Merciful God. And where's the Prince?

And the German and Austrian Dukes? Why don't they stop them?

Forward!

Look, a priest! And some!

He won't be far away!

Find him, brothers, find him!

Here they are! Priests! We have them!

Down! Get down!

Here he is! The traitor!

Is this yours? We've got you! We have the white Provost!

At him!

It's him! Provost of Lounovice! I know him. I was his serf.

He never knew any pity.

Papist filth! He turned Rozmberk against us!

Mercy, sir!

So we meet again, don't be afraid, lady. Come with me.

And you too. But you can't stay like this.

What of the Provost?

He will be judged by the law.

Come, quickly.

Christians, have mercy! Mercy! Brothers in Christ!

Now we're the Christians! Now you'll taste the fire you planned for us.

De profundis ad te clamavi domine.

Be not afraid, lady. Tabor is not so evil. I'll look after you.

I'm bringing him to you.

How quickly he said farewell. He couldn't wait.

He was with us in the attack and suddenly he lay at my feet.

Quickly to the hospital.

Lay him on this sheet, so we don't hurt him.

Both father and brother fought like men.

They killed many enemies of God's law. They certainly have eternal joy now.

How is he?

Two wounds. The head isn't bad, but the leg is worse.

Where did they find him?

I don't know. Brothers brought him here.

And what now?

By God's will.

Ondrej...

He's well. He was here.

Are you better?

Did you hear about the Provost? They caught him and burnt him.

He threatened so much. With the foreigners.

I'll be back soon.

And what about our priests? Kanis and...

...Bydlinsky. Now they're kings of the roost.

They think they won the battle alone.

They're always grumbling. They like to boss people so that

nothing happens against their will. Kanis above all.

And did you hear about their secret meetings?

Women and girls faint and fall into ecstasy when the priests

speak of future heaven on earth.

Lunatics! Blasphemers! And the brothers believe them?

They do. Many of them and the sisters too.

And my daughter, Zdena, do you know something? Speak.

I'm sorry, brother, she's with them against us.

With Kanis? - And with Bydlinsky.

My God.

I come to say farewell. Tomorrow we leave.

You won't wear those white robes again?

The monastery is destroyed... - This worldly robe suits you better.

I always pitied you, Jana,

when I saw you as a nun, so young.

Jana?

So she's christened. Name Marta she's dropped with those nun's clothes.

So farewell, Jana.

Perhaps we'll meet again.

Farewell, and return safely.

Are you in pain? Don't you want water?

No.

Zdena!

You go to the gatherings. - Yes.

To Kanis and to Bydlinsky. - Yes, to them.

Do you believe them?

Yes, I do.

Father, I pray for you to believe too, for you to see the truth too.

To lose my reason like you!

There'll be no pain, nor sin,

all will live together in love like free sons and daughters of God.

Such a blasphemy! You whore, heretic!

You're all in blood!

Tabor, which we founded and defended against Rozmberk,

is being undermined, and will be even more

because of the alliance with the Praguers and other unbelievers.

Come. - Bailiffs! Zizka's bailiffs!

Listen! As you wish. If you want to go to sinful Babylon,

here are the messengers.

I'll stay. I am your wife.

Let's go, it's over. Vain words.

Do you want holiness? There should be no marriage,

no matrimony. - No marriage.

One day, when people are so full of love so that there is no envy.

Let us pray to be saved!

How will we be saved?

Rise, brothers and sisters, let's leave this cursed Tabor!

Let's find a new realm of love and concord!

You have split the faithful Tabor community, you've gone astray.

You're on the road to perdition.

Like a herd. They have no will of their own.

Tabor has made you protector in Pribenice,

which we've conquered. - Why me?

Those Pikarts have gone there.

You are to leave them in abandoned settlement for as long as you can.

Do brothers know my daughter is there?

I come to you, I come for you, sister.

Why don't you come to the gatherings? They're waiting for you, calling you.

I won't go with you.

Bydlinsky doesn't allow, does he? If you're sister I advise you to obey.

Don't separate yourself, be a sister, and not, as they say, a noble woman.

You've corrupted Jan! It's due to you he defends marriage.

Your fault he avoids free sons and daughters of God.

He's still a false priest. But blood will flow and he'll drown in it.

Come! Come.

Come, come.

What happened? - Kanis!

That rogue. Where is he?

Run off. He prepared all this.

Long ago. He hates me secretly for taking you as my wife.

I know. Don't worry about me. With you I can bear anything, Jan.

Let's leave. It's not place of concord. It's place of depravity and vice.

Zdena, I'll go elsewhere to seek true brothers and sisters.

If you go I'll go too. If you stay I'll stay too.

Christ will damn me. I already hear the cries of the damned!

I see a river of fire, I hear... I already hear...

How will we be saved?

Fear not! The day of mercy is approaching.

God's kingdom will be renewed on earth.

For it we suffer and for it we will be saved.

Everyone will shine like the sun in full love,

all free sons and daughters of God.

We'll enter a state of innocence, like Adam and Eve in paradise.

In the realm of innocence all will be shared, including women,

it should be now as well, and whoever is against this sins mortally!

Zdena, go up to the castle, it's dangerous here below.

Tomorrow we'll leave forever. Please, go.

Alone? To my father at the castle? He banished me once and will again.

You're right, we can't part anymore.

Come quickly.

It's late.

Go this way, to the river, hide yourself somewhere!

I won't go alone.

I'll stop them. Just go! - I won't go. They'll kill you.

I won't yield. Zdena, I beg you, go, flee!

The bench!

Go!

You devil priest, come out!

Zdena, come to burn with love!

Burn him!

Burn him! Burn him!

Burn them! Burn!

Sister Zdena, come, I'll lead you from Gomorrah! Come, it's burning!

I curse you!

Kill the priest! Kill the noble woman!

Beat the fanatics! Get them! Scatter them!

Someone's there. Someone's on the ground.

But the doors are closed from the inside!

Bring a beam!

They burned, burned with love.

Who? Who was in there?

The priest. Bydlinsky. And his wife, the noble woman.

They deserved it.

Brothers, the final battle is nigh, the battle with the whole world

of the rich and mighty. For life and death.

Those above fight for worldly power and we for holy truth.

Our nobility abandoned us. But this only brought us closer.

The town and country people.

Brothers, Zikmund has assembled all his might in front of Prague.

Led by the Italian Pipo Spano the King has five Hungarian princes,

the Dukes of Bavaria, Saxony and other princes over forty,

all together a hundred thousand.

Zikmund surrounds Prague on three sides. We have but one path free,

from Poric Gate next to Vitkov. They can't cut us off here.

Who is master of Vitkov is master of the east flank.

So let us fortify that hill as soon as possible.

That smells sweet, lad.

The harvest begins about now, where I come from.

This year they'll have to start without you, brother.

Look at the iron corn yonder. It's time for your flail to set to work.

It's another great city. As wide as an eye can see.

Brother Zizka, sheriff Kunes asks what's still to do.

You see how many they are?

Like locusts.

And only a handful of us.

I thought about it the whole night.

Aren't you afraid?

I'm not. Leave me here so you can see.

I know, dear Ondrej. But get back to your own crowd.

You're a good horseman and you'll be needed there more than here.

We'll stand and fight them here alone.

It'll be like a torrent.

Truth is with us.

But can a person withstand a torrent?

Then we'll die for truth.

How old are you?

You don't trust me?

I trust you. Go back to them, go.

Brother Zizka, have some. You still haven't eaten.

Have the brothers eaten?

Everyone's had something.

What is their mood? Do they observe those over there?

They do.

And what do they say?

We shall not give way to the Antichrist.

Dear brothers, let each do as he is ordered.

Defend your spot, do not leave it, and let brother guard brother.

Listen out for each order and command. And now with God's help!

Brother Zizka, sheriff Kunes reports that the knights seem to be preparing

to storm the city in one great push from the Castle to Stone Bridge,

from Vysehrad to the New Town and from the river to Poric Gate.

Tell Kunes it's a trap. Zikmund must surround Prague fully.

That's why he'll attack us first, here. The Italian Pipo knows this.

Tell our men if it's tight they must march from the city to charge enemy.

And with our cannons. Let's hope Mikulas send the flailers in time.

Go, report this and greet everyone.

Brother archers, fire at their horses before they engage to break their line.

Brother Zizka, the enemy has moved across the river

and is lining up on the Hospital Field!

What's happening? Where are they shooting?

In the Smaller Town! Everybody help!

Brother Zizka was wrong. They are coming against us. Not Vitkov.

Fire!

Our men won't hold! They're only a handful there!

Forward! Forward!

Help! Brother Zizka, we cannot hold!

Brothers! Help them below! Hurry! Where are the flailers from Prague?

Why don't they move? - They should have set off by now!

Sister! Get back!

Keep the truth! Defend the truth!

Mother!

Your Highness, Pipo Spano informs you

that the wooden fort on Vitkov is taken!

Today we shall wear the crown of victory!

Dear Lord of Dube,

today we will crush your peasants, their flails won't help them today.

In the nick of time.

What is it? What happened? - Can you see? There on Vitkov.

Let them go to help! Break down the gate!

Cursed villain, he has the devil's support.

The crusaders! They run!

They flee!

Those over there flee. And these we shall pursue!

In the name of the Lord!

In the name of the Lord!

Those who are God's soldiers and follow His law,

ask God's aid and believe in Him,

those will always win.

In the name of God don't be afraid to be wounded,

in the name of love for your fellows get ready to die,

in the name of love for your fellows get ready to die.

Always be brave and strong enough to keep your fight.

With weapons in your hands, with God in your hearts.

Traitors! - Don't delay!

Cowards! - Go!

Jesus Christ! - What will be of us?

Highness, I led the lines according to the rules.

And that blind kicked them, send his coarse, filthy peasants

with their flails and the lines and your rules are worthless!

Our army was afraid, it helped the heretics.

And why they were not afraid? They sing while they charge,

sing until death and you flee! They chase you like a herd of animals!

What a disgrace before all the Christendom!

THE END