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...

Munich – The Edge of War
2021
6.9/10

Oranges and Sunshine
2010
7.0/10

Mansfield Park
2007
6.1/10

Radium Girls
2020
6.7/10

The Book of Daniel
2013
7.0/10

Fanny Lye Deliver'd
2019
6.3/10

Firebrand
2024
6.3/10

Medieval
2022
6.9/10

Shattered Glass
2003
7.0/10

Mother Night
1996
6.6/10

Outlaws - For Greater Glory
2012
6.8/10

The Scarlet and the Black
1983
7.0/10

Field of Lost Shoes
2015
6.1/10

Panther
1995
6.3/10

Girl in the Box
2016
6.7/10

Richard Jewell
2019
7.4/10

A Call to Spy
2020
6.8/10

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
2011
6.1/10

The Boy in the Woods
2023
6.9/10

The Last Rifleman
2023
6.6/10
Fight Club
1999
8.437/10